Brief Political History of Portugal

This video looks a the history of Portugal. From its first inhabitants to the premiership of Antonio Costa. It looks at how and why Portugal became one of the earliest European superpowers, why it had a long decline and why it fell into instability and then a dictatorship in the 20th century. It then looks at its transition to democracy in the 1970s and its consequences.

[@MedlifeCrisis]

Listened to this while walking around Lisbon, great stuff 👍

That made my day

[@Joaocruz30]

BTW Your brief and succinct history of Portugal is extremely factual for its brief time. In short, you managed to summarize the main data and facts in a short space of time. It was truly impressive and it was certainly an intense amount of study work! congratulations!

thank you!

[@familykaplan1341]

Obrigado!

[@BrunoSantos-fy9un]

Thank you! to your video! Obrigado Canal por prestigiar a história desse país que passou pelo Brasil e deixou sua história e independência com laços duradouros até hoje!!! Contou a história com ilustrações excelentes e bem estudadas. Valeu canal!!!👏👏👏🖥❤

Obrigado você.

[@BrunoSantos-fy9un]

Canal excelente!!!💻🖱💖🤜🤛 parabéns!!!👏👏👏💕

[@anna3046]

Portugal was created by celts! Celts have been living in the far corner of South Western Europe for thousands of years but we have only existed as a nation since 1143.

[@HelderP1337]

That's a bit of a generalization, Celtic culture has a huge impact in Portugal's roots, but it goes way back before that, even. Lisbon, for example, is older than Rome, it wasn't called Portugal back then, or course. Eventually, for nearly 700 years it was mostly occupied by Muslims and eventually taken over by the Christians. It's a large complicated history.

[@nickpapagiorgio9872]

@@HelderP1337the celts were there way before the Muslims my friend

[@HelderP1337]

@@nickpapagiorgio9872 oh yeah, absolutely.

[@joaosilva-ec6li]

Portugal wasn't founded by the celts it was founded by the romans in fact the portuguese aren't indo-european/celts they are early european farmers an group who arrived to the iberian peninsula from turkey or the caucasus thousands of years before the celts, they do have a minor indo-european ancestry doe to the indo-european (although they problay weren't related to the celts, but to the lusitanians since the celts only arrived 500 bc and were a minority) migration and western hunter gatherer who also arrived before the farmers but they no longer exist

[@tiagoferro5675]

Thanks for this video! Cheers from Portugal!

Que bom que vc gosto!

[@1234smileface]

His Portuguese pronunciation is clealry very influenced by Spanish unfortunately. Kany peiple think they're subject to the same pronunciation but they are not.

Eu falo português. O problema não é isso. O problema é que o português do Brasil onde eu aprendí, é muito diferente do português do Portugal.

[@CatherineLambert-fz7pd]

I'm watching this, just after learning about Salazar. Thank you!

[@richlisola1]

Green Tea with D Man does the best comprehensive rundown of O Estado Novo

[@valour4494]

Great video!!! Thank you, very informative.

[@BlackMambo]

That was a superb Master Class in history! Congratulations @CronicaPanamericana...!

Thank you!

[@wholesomedeus1655]

Great video as always 👍

[@rubenbento06]

Awesome video, i just would like a better explanation how António Costa got that surprise victory.

honestly, I don't know and I'm not sure if the experts know. I read all kinds of reasons (their policies, their record, the opposition policies etc.). It was not clear to me that there was a clear reason so I didn't include it. But what is true is that it was definitely a surprise.

[@JoaoSantos-jw5kg]

Thank you 🙏

[@kassander7353]

To this day the Portuguese people still awaits the arrival of King Joao back from North Africa.

[@joaoconchilha2231]

Sebastião.

[@thegoodfriend6247]

Hi. Nice video. I noticed you've changed your accent from Castillian to Portuguese and started pronouncing words and names quite correctly in the middle of the video. Still, as Aljubarrota is in central Portugal you could have used the proper accent: It is spelled with a "J" sound, not an "R" sound. Ironic, considering it was a major Portuguese victory.

I appreciate the comment. I pronounced it that way because I was using Brazilian Portuguese to say it. I forgot the rrr’s in European portuguese are basically the same as Castilian Spanish.

[@1234smileface]

His pronunciation still leaves much to he desired though

[@antonioluisalves5627]

Por favor traduzir para Portugues.Magnífico programa.

[@Illstatefishing]

Great video profe, so much history!! Will you make videos going into detail of some of the events, such as The Carnation Revolution? That would be very interesting to learn more about!!

Eventually, yes. It's just that I owe people other videos and I'll have much less time starting in September. Right now, the ones on the queue are California and Puerto Rico (en español). Soon after, the Mexican Revolution and Arizona.

I'll just say though, that the fact that a group in the armed forces stood up to a dictatorship with the specific goal of decolonizing and then getting massive (unexpected) public support really should be talked about more.

[@Illstatefishing]

@ Yes, I was surprised when I heard that, usually it's the other way around and more fascistic

[@RobertoGarcia-hf6bs]

The muslims did not dominate over the Iberian peninsula for 7 centuries, as the video says. Only around Granada did this domination last that long. So that cultural imprint is not as deep as the video says. The christians were a different culture, a different civilization. Al Anadalus disappeared, 85 to 90 % of the population was replaced. As the reconquered lands were emptied, they were populated by immigrants from the north, who broutgh their own culture.

The video does not say that the Muslims dominated the entire Iberian peninsula for 7 centuries. What it actually says is: "The territory controlled by the Muslims would be under Islamic rule for slightly over seven centuries first as part of the caliphate of Damascus, and later in 756 as an independent kingdom with its capital in Córdoba, Spain." As to the deep imprint in culture. There are hundreds of words in Spanish and Portuguese that have roots in Arabic, then there's the use of arabic numbers and algebra which became universal, the spanish guitar, cotton manufacturing, the use of azulejo tiles, and countless other things. Muslims were expulsed yes, but the sustained interaction with christians for centuries meant that their ideas and technology did not just disappear because the people left.

[@peidoatomico]

Nice!

[@theamazingfuzzlord]

New video!!!

[@yellowman617]

Eu amo ser português

[@BijouxNior]

Hi can I share your videos on my channel I will make to highlight your channel to my subscribers

[@valour4494]

I believe Barcelona, Spain was named after Hamilcar *Barca* the Carthaginian.

[@jahzalika]

thoose muslims were actually known as the Moors

[@COMTeixeira23]

A really great video. But I gotta say, not mentioning Guimarães its a big miss, I mean, it's the first Portuguese city.. could have at least slipped it when mentioning what is actually, I would say more then viriato, the biggest Portuguese (historical) figure 😅 Either way, that's still just a friendly note 👏

I appreciate it. Thank you for the friendly note.

[@sergeigen1]

Im a mexican guy who just spent a week in lisboa as a cultural tourist. I dont speak portuguese, but i do speak spanish and english, at first i thought that spanish would be better recieved by locals whenever i needed to talk to someone, but after a few days i started to realize that more people prefered english. Im curious to ask portuguese people how they feel about this and would like any insight, ty

[@nikousenpai]

English is the preferred language to use, almost everybody knows it and will speak it with ease (you may even be able to get by with French in some places), we all more or less understand and can speak Spanish, however if you do decide to use Spanish you'll be met with the occasional eye-roll as we will perceive this as 'tourist ignorance' of somebody who did not bother to learn the place they intended to visit. Portugal and Spain share a deep rich heritage and ties but ultimately we have different language and costumes that not many people know of. Think of it as someone mistaking Mexico for Argentina or even Spain. Hope this clarifies it, hope you enjoyed your trip to Lisboa. Un Abrazo de Portugal!

[@sergeigen1]

@@nikousenpai ok ok, yeah, i could sort of tell it was something like that. That would drive me crazy too lol

[@sergeigen1]

yeah for sure lol, i noticed some people took a little pride in showing off their english, like it made them more wordly@@s.w.w.

[@adelesr4965]

sergeigen muitos portuguêses não gostam dos espanhois castelhanos por causa da história eles tem a nossa Olivênça anexada e eles não tem vergonha de pedir Gibraltar á Inglaterra a Espanha tem que entregar Oliv^nça a Portugal como tem que entregar os territórios no norte de África a Marrocos por exemplo Ceuta etc.etc.

[@ameyakulkarni6493]

MAKE THIS TYPE VIDEO ON GERMANY & ITALY

[@antoniomariapetruccisaraiv1729]

Sá Carneiro was the founder of the PSD, the Social Democratic Party, not the Socialist Party

Indeed he was. Thanks for the correction.

[@Joaocruz30]

Hi there. I have nothing to criticize about the information provided, just asking if the narrator is Portuguese because he speaks the names of Portuguese people and with a strange accent he says hinriqui instead of Henrique... and I don't understand why! If you are not of Portuguese nationality, I understand and I take back what I said, immediately regretting it and asking for forgiveness for the inconvenience caused. Thank you for your time and best wishes. RSVP

I am not Portuguese, but I do speak Portuguese.

[@Joaocruz30]

Ah ok! Them I'm sorry for asking. Changing to Portuguese because I'm terrible at English. Achei estranho você ter uma excelente pronúncia mas um estranho sotaque. Inclusive pensei que dominava outra lingua românica como o Italiano ou Espanhol. Assim sendo peço desculpa espero que não leve a mal e me desculpe o incómodo. Um abraço e um bem haja para a sua família

Abraço pra vc. O sotaque não é do Portugal. Eu aprendí o português no Brasil. No Nordeste. Minha ligua natal é o espanhol, então também é um poco do sotaque. Mas, obrigado por o comentario. Eu acho que sempre e bom falar com a audiencia.@@Joaocruz30

[@Joaocruz30]

AH obrigado eu por me elucidar pois não estava a entender Eu sabia que havia um sotaque diferente( espanhol ou Italiano) mas apesar da minha avó nascida em Manaus não dá para perceber sotaque Brasileiro. Isto é um caso para um linguista que domine as línguas românicas todas, o que não é o meu caso, pois Eu estava bem longe de conseguir perceber as nuances das várias linguas! Enfim, está resolvido! Obrigado e uma boa noite! Aqui sao 1.46 am e amanhã trabalho! Adeus e tudo a correr bem para Si e para os Seus.

[@JonSant21]

Please do California.

that's the next one. Should be done in about two weeks.

[@JonSant21]

@ Glad to know 🙏 Your work is amazing by the way. I’m a huge fan of your videos.

@@JonSant21 thanks for the kind words.

[@TagusMan]

Don't tell anyone. Antonio Salazar was secretly a Grand Master of the Ancient Order of the Holy Sardine in Coimbra. Rumours of an underground temple, built by Portuguese Templars, beneath the thousand year old Sé Velha where rituals of sorcery and alchemy were said to have taken place. The ancient Roman city of Conimbriga near by was destroyed by Germanic tribes for its ties to the magic cult of the suastica, proof of which is visible today in the well preserved mosaics of the Casa das Suasitcas. Other myths claim that Salazar and Fernando Pessoa, poet and well known occultist, would travel to Conimbriga and conjure Viriatus and other Lusitanian spirits under the full moon, dressed in black robes, the kind that would become the inspiration for a well known school of magic in popular children's books. In Portugal 🇵🇹, myths, secrets and lies are bigger than the monster waves of Nazaré.

[@psycho_chicken_9589]

O Salazar era mais religioso que o menino Jesus, extremamente improvável !

[@Joaocruz30]

NB: CARNATION REVOLUTION! *50th anniversary of April 25, 1974! *A Portuguese and worldwide revolution! *This day ended a fascist dictatorship that lasted 41 years since 1933 *The end of fascism meant the end of Portuguese colonialism in: Africa(Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, São Tomé e Princepe and in Asia: India( Goa, Damao and Diu), East-timor and Macao. * Ended the Colonial War that lasted 13 years,2 months and 3 weeks and killed 10,000 soldiers 20,000 wounded and more than 100,000 deaths among the civilians! *Women were allowed to vote for the first time! * the revolution was organized by left military forces and was not successful a month before in 16 of March but was successful by a Movement of Army Captains The song written by Zaca Afonso;"Grândola, Vila Morena" was banned during the dictatorship, but then was radio broadcasted to signal the start of the military coup on 25 of April with a particulary line that represents the people, and it goes:" O povo é quem mais ordena" - power to the people *Freedom of speech was finally provided to the People after 41 years * Ended Torture, arbitrary Prision, killing of people against the regime that sometimes died because of mistreated by the prision guards, in a fort on an island turned prison called" TARRAFAL" *there's lots of movies about the 25/04/1974 1 Capitães de Abril -Maria de medeiros (2000) 2 "Cinco dias, cinco Noites" José Fonseca e Costa (1996) 3"a Hora Da Liberdade " joana Pontes(1999) 4"Amanha" Solveig Nordlund (2004) 5 " As ondas e Abril" Lionel Baier (2013) 6 "Cartas de Guerra" Ivo Ferreira (2016) 7 " Non ou a Va Gloria de Mandar" Manoel de Oliveira (1990) PARA PORTUGUESE Este ano a 25 de Abril Portugal festeja a liberdade! A 25 de Abril de 1974 quinquagésimo aniversário da Revolução dos Cravos! O Salazarismo( Fascismo) foi deitado abaixo pelos Capitães de Abril! Acabou a torturas, a prisões, as mortes, o Tarrafal! E o povo veio gritar para a Rua( com o centro no Largo do Carmo(Lisboa- sede da GNR): Fascismo nunca mais! Liberdade! 25 de abril Sempre!

[@peterjaniceforan3080]

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[@PhailingMath]

10:15 the music is really cool and epic but super distracting. Stick to something more appropriate for the background