Portuguese people are a Romance nation and ethnic group indigenous to Portugal who share a common culture, ancestry and language.
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13 Facts About Portuguese people
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Portuguese people began an Age of Exploration which started in 1415 with the conquest of Ceuta and culminated in an empire with territories that are now part of over 50 countries.
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The discovery of several lands unknown to Europeans in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania, forged the Portuguese people Empire described as the first global maritime and commercial empire, becoming one of the world's major economic, political and military powers in the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Portuguese people are a Southwestern European population, with origins predominantly from Southern and Western Europe.
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The results of the present HLA study in Portuguese people populations show that they have features in common with Basques and some Spaniards from Madrid: a high frequency of the HLA-haplotypes A29-B44-DR7 and A1-B8-DR3 are found as common characteristics.
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Lusitanians were an Indo-European speaking Portuguese people living in the Western Iberian Peninsula long before it became the Roman province of Lusitania .
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Portuguese people commanded a confederation of Celtic tribes and prevented the Roman expansion through guerrilla warfare.
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The Portuguese people migration was strongly marked by the predominance of men .
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The multiplication of descendants of Portuguese people settlers happened to a large degree through miscegenation with black and amerindian women.
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The Indian and African women were "dominated" by the Portuguese people men, preventing men of color to find partners with whom they could have children.
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Portuguese people women appeared with some regularity among immigrants, with percentage variation in different decades and regions of the country.
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