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20 million (as of 2020) G2A.COM Limited (commonly referred to as G2A) is a digital marketplace headquartered in the Netherlands, [1] [2] with offices in Poland and Hong Kong. [3] [4] The site operates in the resale of gaming products by the use of redemption keys. Other items sold on the site are software, prepaid activation codes, electronics ...
The Casa da Guiné (English: House of Guinea), later known as the Casa da Guiné e Mina and also referred to as the Portuguese Guinea Company, was a state-run Portuguese commercial institution, tasked with the management of the Portuguese Empire's economic interests and colonization in West Africa, particularly on the Gulf of Guinea, on the Gold Coast, and on the Slave Coast.
History Origin. The origin of the Ataíde family can be documented since the 12th century, its progenitor being Egas Duer (c. 1140 – c. 1180), a fidalgo of the County of Portugal (and likely a member of the early medieval House of Riba Douro) whose son Martim Viegas was the 1st Lord of the Honra of Ataíde, located in what was then the county of Santa Cruz de Riba Tâmega (near present-day ...
The Lisbon Holy House of Mercy MHIH ( Portuguese: Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa) is a Portuguese charitable organisation that, in modern times, serves also as the national lottery and off-course betting operator. In spite of its historical links to the Catholic Church, it is today a secular legal person in the public administrative ...
Luís Vaz de Camões ( Portuguese pronunciation: [luˈiʒ ˈvaʒ ðɨ kaˈmõjʃ]; c. 1524 or 1525 – 10 June 1580), sometimes rendered in English as Camoens or Camoëns [1] ( / ˈkæmoʊənz / KAM-oh-ənz ), is considered Portugal 's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare ...
Haplogroup G-FGC7535, also known as Haplogroup G2a1 (and formerly G-L293), [1] is a Y-chromosome haplogroup. It is an immediate descendant of G2a (G-P15), which is a primary branch of haplogroup G2 (P287). G2a1 has an extremely low frequency in almost all populations except parts of the Caucasus Mountains . In 2017, the SNP L293 was replaced by ...
The Palace of Ajuda ( Portuguese: Palácio da Ajuda, Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐˈʒuðɐ]) is a neoclassical monument in the civil parish of Ajuda in the city of Lisbon, central Portugal. Built on the site of a temporary wooden building constructed to house the royal family after the 1755 earthquake and tsunami, it was originally begun by ...
The second, of the Portugal-Noronhas , in the I and IV quarters, shows five blue shields cross-shaped, each with five silver bezants, placed to quincunx of the House De Portugal and, in the II and III quarters, the castle with the three golden towers surmounted by two crimson lions of the House of Castiglia and of Leon. The quarter is framed by ...