Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Institute of Registries and Notary is responsible for various operations related to civil registry, including the issuance of birth certificates, marriage certificates, death certificates and the processing of citizenship requests. The IRN has office in each Portuguese province, and in the cities of Lisbon, Porto, Vila Nova de Gaia and ...
Portuguese residents of Ormuz, c. 1540; they had flooded their homes due to the warm weather. The first interactions between Portugal and Iran date back to the 16th century, during the period of the Safavid dynasty, when a Portuguese armada led by Afonso de Albuquerque stormed and captured Ormuz in 1507. From that moment on, the two countries ...
Current ISO 3166 country codes. The sortable table below contains the three sets of ISO 3166-1 country codes for each of its 249 countries, links to the ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes, and the Internet country code top-level domains (ccTLD) which are based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard with the few exceptions noted.
A Portuguese name, or Lusophone name – a personal name in the Portuguese language – is typically composed of one or two personal names, the mother's family surname and the father's family surname (rarely only one surname, sometimes more than two). For practicality, usually only the last surname ( excluding prepositions) is used in formal ...
Portugal: PRK North Korea: NKO (1964 S ... IRN was changed to IRI for Iran for the 1992 Games, reflecting the change in designation to Islamic Republic of Iran ...
Portugal's involvement in the Iran–Iraq War includes Portugal supplying both Iran and Iraq with arms, and playing a role in the Iran–Contra affair. From 1981 to 1986 75% of Portuguese arms exports (35.7bn escudos ' worth) went to the Middle East; most of it, directly or indirectly, to Iran or Iraq.
Portugal was a full member of the Latin Union (1983) and the Organization of Ibero-American States (1949). It has a friendship alliance and dual citizenship treaty with its former colony, Brazil. Portugal and the United Kingdom share the world's oldest active military accord through their Anglo-Portuguese Alliance (Treaty of Windsor), signed in ...
Exclusive economic zone. 1,727,408 km 2 (666,956 sq mi) Portugal is a coastal nation in western Europe, located at the western end of the Iberian Peninsula, bordering Spain (on its northern and eastern frontiers: a total of 1,215 kilometres (755 mi)). The Portuguese territory also includes a series of archipelagos in the Atlantic Ocean (the ...