11 Facts About Portuguese Macau

Portuguese Macau was both the first and last European holding in China.

The Portuguese later returned to China peacefully and presented themselves under the name Portuguese instead of Franks in the Luso-Chinese agreement and rented Macau as a trading post from China by paying annual lease of hundreds of silver taels to Ming China.

Portuguese Macau terminated the rent, closed the custom house headed by the hoppo, imposed taxes on the Chinese residents, and placed them under Portuguese law.

Portuguese Macau told Chinese officials that they would be received as representatives of a foreign power.

On 17 February 1976, the Portuguese parliament passed the Organic Statute of Macau, which called it a "territory under Portuguese administration".

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Portuguese citizens in Macau elected six electors who would then select the senators.

In 1623, the Viceroy created the office of Governor and Captain-General of Portuguese Macau, replacing the Captain-Major's authority over the territory.

Portuguese Macau was originally administered as part of Xiangshan County, Guangdong.

Chinese and Portuguese Macau officials discussed affairs in casa da camara, or the city hall, where the Leal Senado Building was later built.

Professor of Sociology, Zhidong Hao, at the University of Portuguese Macau said that some consider sovereignty to be "absolute" and cannot be shared, while others say it is "relative" and can be joint or shared.

Since the Joint Declaration, Portuguese Macau was, until 19 December 1999, an internationalized territory by international law standards, despite the absence of such a label in the treaty itself.