Spain Portugal category: 3192 books
by António Borges Coelho
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Este volume abre com o golpe de Estado que rompeu o elo «constitucional» que ligava Portugal às nações de Espanha, de Itália e da Flandres, e restabeleceu a independência política, perdida em 1580.[...] No mais fundo, quero ser cidadão do Mundo, mas sinto-me bem na fala e não me aperta a roupa...
by João Mendes
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Portugal, a small European country with multiple charms, attracts more and more tourists.
What is so special about this nation?
This eBook reveals 10 curiosities (historical, social, tourist) that help answer this question.
by Gerald Brenan
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Less than 100 years after they had hurled themselves out of the desert, Arabs were building in Spain a civilization that lasted almost 800 years and cast a bright ray of light into the Dark Ages of Europe. Here, in this essay by the acclaimed British historian Gerald Brenan, is the story of Moorish Spain.
by Maria Antónia Pires de Almeida
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Na sequência da publicação em 2013 do livro O Poder Local do Estado Novo à Democracia: Presidentes de Câmara e Governadores Civis, 1936-2012, também sob a forma de e.book, completo aqui a publicação dos dados recolhidos para o projeto de pós-doutoramento desenvolvido no Centro de Investigação...
by David E. Gates
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
Join David E. Gates and his golfing buddies as they travel to the Morgado Golf Hotel and Resort in Portimao, Portugal for the David E. Gates Memorial Cup 2018.
Vibrant Andalusia
The Spice of Life in Southern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Almost a thousand years ago, when most of Europe was just edging out of the Dark Ages, the South of Spain was a brilliant center of world culture, a site of splendor, and a magnet for the talented and ambitious from all around the Mediterranean, the Near East, and beyond. Andalusia, or Andalucia, was...
by Kelly Lipscomb
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2012
Stately Segovia is perched high on a rocky promontory overlooking the rivers Erasma and Clamores at their convergence. In the distance 12 km (7.5 miles) away is the silhouette of the Sierra de Guadarrama. The Moorish Alcázar is seated precariously at the edge of the cliff, the Gothic tower of the...
Bernardo de Gálvez
Spanish Hero of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Although Spain was never a formal ally of the United States during the American Revolution, its entry into the war definitively tipped the balance against Britain. Led by Bernardo de Galvez, supreme commander of the Spanish forces in North America, their military campaigns against British settlements...
Portugal Reiseführer Michael Müller Verlag
Individuell reisen mit vielen praktischen Tipps
Language: German
Release Date: September 14, 2017
E-Book zur 22. komplett überarbeiteten und aktualisierten Auflage 2017 Portugal – das ist das kleine, aber vielfältige Land am Rande Europas. Der üppig grüne Norden und der mediterrane, trockene Süden zeigen starke landschaftliche Kontraste. Hier die wildromantische Gebirgslandschaft und das...
by Paul Ames
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Map your own adventure in Portugal’s vibrant capital city with Frommer’s Lisbon Day by Day. Portable, up-to-date, and to-the-point, the guide offers a slew of itineraries designed to maximize your time in this one-of-a-kind destination. The book is packed with color photos as well as bulleted...
Spain in Arms
A Military History of the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2019
Spain in Arms is a new military history of the Spanish Civil War. It examines how the Spanish Civil War conflict developed on the battlefield through the prism of eight campaigns between 1937-1939 and shows how many accounts of military operations during this conflict are based upon half-truths and...
Forging the Past
Invented Histories in Counter-Reformation Spain
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Spain’s infamous “false chronicles” were alleged to have been unearthed in 1595 in a monastic library deep in the heart of the German-speaking territories of the Holy Roman Empire by the Jesuit priest Jerónimo Román de la Higuera. Though rife with anachronisms and chronological inaccuracies,...
by Marc Rigole
Language: French
Release Date: June 26, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: June 26, 2016
Partez à la découverte de la Fabuleuse Algarve du Portugal avec ce chapitre extrait du guide Ulysse Fabuleux Portugal. Célèbre pour l’école de navigation créée par Henri le Navigateur, Sagres n’est autre qu’un grand promontoire rocheux battu par les vents et s’enfonçant telle une pointe...
Conqueror And Administrator:
Civil And Military Actions Of Marshal Louis-Gabriel Suchet In The Spanish Province Of Aragon, 1808
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
During the Peninsular War in Spain from 1808 to 1813, Marshal Suchet not only successfully fought the Spanish “Guerillas” but he also skilfully administrated the province of Aragon. He made it a relatively safe and prosperous place for his troops, while the rest of Spain became a nightmarish quagmire...