Noticias de Portugal

Noticias de Portugal

Manoel Severim de Faria (1583-1655)

Approximate level
C1
Length
181,748 words
Reading time
15 h 9 min
Chapters
211
Language
Portuguese
On Project Gutenberg since
2022

This text is a seventeenth century collection of essays regarding the demographics, military organization, and administration of Portugal. Reading this work is a demanding task because it features archaic spelling and specialized vocabulary related to historical governance and military ranks. The sentences are structured as concise index entries, which makes the syntax repetitive but clear. It is a valuable resource for those interested in the social and political history of the Iberian Peninsula during the early modern period.

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Subjects

  • Numismatics -- Portugal
  • Portugal

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