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Resources : Portugal
This is a page listing various resources dealing with Portuguese history, geography and related topics and subjects. Resources range from website and online article links to lists of recommended non-fiction bibliography.
Map of pre-Roman peoples and languages of Iberia
Some old PDFs about Mineral Resources (in Portuguese and English)
A link about Portuguese wolfram (tungsten) mines in the 1940s
Pordata - An excellent site with lots of statistical data about Portugal. Especially good when one can't or doesn't know where to find the right sources (they are a private entity that gathers publicly available official data). Even when one can't find what is looking for, it helps to figure the sources.
A list of currently authorized given names for babies in Portugal (it's very incomplete, lacking the most common names, but it's from the Ministry of Justice).
All the modern Portuguese Census Data from Statistics Portugal
All versions of the Portuguese Civil Code, since 1966 (in Portuguese) - from the Lisbon District Attorney Office.
Family names in Portugal: A brief historical perspective (in Portuguese) - stored in the Portuguese Scientific Electronic Library Online (English version of the site).
Some Links about Portuguese elections:
Secretariado Técnico dos Assuntos para o Processo Eleitoral - STAPE(archive)
Portuguese Ministry of Justice
(includes updated elections results)
Maps and data on the various elections (official)
Modern unofficial links about the 2009 election results in Portugal:
RTP (extremely good - includes reasonably detailed results from previous elections)
Resources about Portuguese politics of the past:
Debates Parlamentares (Parliamentary Debates) - A very useful and official link (in Portuguese) about the Portuguese Constitutions of the past.
Opposition candidates to the National Assembly during the "New State" regime (1945-1973) (in Portuguese) - from the Portuguese Parliament.
Portuguese First Republic politicians - from Repertório Português de Ciência Política (in Portuguese).
Photos of Portuguese rail vehicles and rolling stock, courtesy of Phil Richards