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A portuguese woman explaining portuguese culture to travellers, inquisitive people and to luso-descendants who wish to get in touch with their roots.
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Moor: one word, multiple meanings (opens the original)
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In many of my posts I use the word Moor (Mouro) to describe the peoples who invaded and occupied the Iberian Peninsula in the 7th century, but the word Mouro (Moor) has several meanings in Portuguese, all shaped by our History and culture.But before I start talking about the less obvious meanings, it may be important to understand the first and the original meaning of the word. Both Mouro and its English equivalent, Moor, derive from the latin word Maur, which means dark skinned, and was used by
Templars: the Portuguese perspective (opens the original)
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I wanted to wait a little longer to write about the Templars, but I came across some articles where the knights were mentioned and I noticed the cynicism in these people writing: in their perspective, the Templars were nothing more than a greedy group of men using religion to become rich. I felt the need to write about them now, to give the Portuguese perspective on this subject. Note that I do not deny that some of our modern historians may share this cyniscism, but that does not represent the
Portuguese Chroniclers and Sub-Saharan Cultures (opens the original)
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Before the Age of Discoveries, many regions of the world and many cultures and peoples were unknown to the Europeans; after the Portuguese begun exploring the seas, the old barriers were broken down, and the different peoples were able to finally meet. Just like Greek historians and travellers in ancient times were able to observe other ethnic groups and understand their ways through their eyes and culture, the Portuguese in the 15th-16th centuries had the oportunity to do the same, giving us th
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