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Users. 30 million (as of 2024) 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 offers and others digital items by the use of redemption keys. G2A.COM’s main offerings are game key codes for ...
Lisbon. / 38.72528°N 9.15000°W / 38.72528; -9.15000. Lisbon ( / ˈlɪzbən / LIZ-bən; Portuguese: Lisboa [liʒˈβoɐ] ⓘ) [ 3] is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits [ 4] and 2,961,177 within the metropolis. [ 5]
Overview. At the outbreak of World War II, Portugal was ruled by António de Oliveira Salazar, who in 1933 had founded the Estado Novo ("New State"), the corporatist authoritarian government that ruled Portugal until 1974. He had favoured the Spanish nationalist cause, fearing a communist invasion of Portugal, yet he was uneasy at the prospect ...
Vasco da Gama Bridge. / 38.762; -9.043. The Vasco da Gama Bridge ( Portuguese: Ponte Vasco da Gama) is a cable-stayed bridge flanked by viaducts that spans the Tagus River in Parque das Nações in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal. It is the second longest bridge in Europe, after the Crimean Bridge, [ 8] and the longest one in the European Union.
[8] [9] The Estrímnios (in Portuguese) are given by some historians as the first known native people of Portugal. [10] Called Oestrimni (Latin for "people of the far west") by the Romans, they extended their territory from present-day Galicia to the Algarve [11] during the Late Bronze Age (1200–700 B.C.).
Grande Lisboa. Grande Lisboa ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈɡɾɐ̃dɨ liʒˈβoɐ]) or Greater Lisbon is a Portuguese NUTS II and III region and subregion. It was previously only a NUTS III subregion integrated in the Lisboa Region and, previously, in the Lisboa e Vale do Tejo until it was abolished at the January 2015 NUTS 3 revision. [ 1]
Haplogroup G2a1 (also known as G-FGC753 and previously as G-L293) and its subclades represent the majority of haplogroup G samples in some parts of the Caucasus Mountains area. They are found only in tiny numbers elsewhere. So far all G2a1 persons have a value of 10 at STR marker DYS392.
Portugal shown on a map of German-occupied Europe, c.1942 France was invaded and occupied in May and June 1940. Acting contrary to Circular 14, Aristides de Sousa Mendes , Portuguese consul at Bordeaux , issued an undetermined number of transit visas to substantial numbers of refugees on his own initiative, [ 3 ] although their numbers fell ...