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Definition of Capital of Portugal
1. Noun. Capital and largest city and economic and cultural center of Portugal; a major port in western Portugal on Tagus River where it broadens and empties into the Atlantic.
Terms within: Ponte 25 De Abril
Generic synonyms: Port, National Capital
Group relationships: Portugal, Portuguese Republic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Capital Of Portugal
Literary usage of Capital of Portugal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Marquis of Pombal: With Extracts from His Writings, and from by John Smith Athelstane Carnota (1843)
"The Industry and capital of Portugal transferred to Brazil — Circumstances which
led to the Declaration of Brazilian Independence — Present State of ..."
2. Manual of Geography: Combined with History and Astronomy by James Monteith (1864)
"What Rivers flow through Portugal into thp Atlantic? What is the south-west Cape
of Portugal? What is the capital of Portugal? •1 Kalla. ..."
3. A Typographical Gazetteer by Henry Cotton (1831)
"... (in one book Lysa,) Lisbon, a well-known city, the capital of Portugal.
It is an archbishop's see, ..."
4. Manual of Modern Geography: Physical, Political, and Commercial by William Lawson (1879)
"It still, Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, stands near the mouth of the Tagus.
The city, built on an amphitheatre of hills, has a splendid situation, and, ..."
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