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In 1575, the ruler of Kaboloan defeated and expelled Limahong from Kaboloan which would cause Kaboloan to remain independent for a long time, Limahong would leave Kaboloan alone, it was rumored that the Kapampangans would have helped Kaboloan against the Chinese pirate, Kapampangans would be...

I think if the Portuguese colonized the Philippines, the colonization will be much slower and the Portuguese would have rights to Luzon and Sulu due to discovery and alliance, the last Majapahit ruler was allied with Manuel I and Joao III. I think the Igorots might have allied with the...

Scenario: The Iberian peninsula is united under a single flag sometime before 1492. Main question: How does this affect the colonization of the New World? Without Portugal and Spain separated, there's no direct competition for those lands, Iberia would be the only empire in the world that can...

From what I read in old Portuguese records shown by a historian I know, the Portuguese were friendly with the Bruneians and even explored Luzon during the reign of John III, however that was stopped due to the regency and influence of Catherine of Austria, what if the Portuguese and later...

Just as the title and the poll say, which would be easier to hold, Portuguese Galicia/Andalusia or Portuguese Morocco? What would be the effects?

With a POD of 1480, besides Brazil and its African and Asian territories, could Portugal have other colonies? Before anyone talks about how they couldn't do that because of demographics, you're wrong, @Viriato has consistently shown that Portugal had an enormous amount of settlers and extremely...

Let's say the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves survived and Brazil continued to be the capital of the Portuguese Empire. With the passage of time the colonial empire would be more and more Brazilian than Portuguese. So how long would slavery in Brazil survive and how would it...

During the early 19th Century in the 1830s, both Spain and Portugal were going through civil wars. To oversimplify, this were between liberals, and the conservatives over the succession of their respective monarchs. In Spain, it was the Carlists, where the supporters of Infante Carlos (Charles...

So, in my Failed Constitutional Convention TL, Godoy is forewarned about napoleon's intent to double cross Spain given the chance and believes it (i figured that with ~11 countries all having embassies in pairs, intrigue makes such secrets much harder.) as such, spain and Portugal do not fall...

I am planning a Time line and would love to see some discussion on the scenario below. The premise is that the Spanish under the direction of prime Minister Manuel Godoy is able to start a war with Portugal a decade earlier then OTL. In 1797, a year after the Second Treaty of San Ildefonso with...

In this TL the Iberian Union survives for a lot longer, a few centuries at least. My question is what happens to some Portuguese colonies, specially Brazil. Without the competition between Spain and Portugal, would Brazil still expand westwards? Or does the crown make them respect the Line of...

Why didn't Spain and Portugal colonize more of Oceania and South East Asia during their peak power? And what would have to change for them to do it? Also, most of New Guinea was on the Spanish side of the world, so wouldn't it make more sense to colonize there instead of the Philippines?

>Brunei keeps control of the Philippines/San Lazaro but the Portuguese would have ports in the Philippines as long as the Portuguese Empire is intact with the Lesser Sunda. >Brazil remains to have only control of the lands in the East of the Tordesillas/Zaragosa line although later expansion...

Brazil is a big country, it is in fact larger than the Contiguous United States. It is frankly amazing that Brazil is so enormous, given that it was colonized by such a small country. However, with a POD of the Treaty of Tordesillas, is it fair to argue that it was a given that Brazil/Portuguese...

In a political website, men are discussing the Koreans and the people of Takasago being under the rule of People’s Republic of Japan. Boy A: Did you saw the news that the Communist Japanese are sterilising and torturing Koreans and Taiwanese. Boy B: I doubt if the Japanese are torturing and...

On 1516, after the birth of Infante Antonio, Maria of Aragon would recuperate but she would not give birth again afterwards and survive her husband after his death in the plague for a few years and die in 1523. On July 16, 1518, Eleanor of Austria would marry Prince John of Portugal, later John...

Alright, so sorry if this is a confusing thread, because it is above all a question about OTL, and also a potential AH scenario @Viriato @Lusitania In my TL, the Portuguese Overseas Empire survives until the present day, although it is not exactly the main focus on the TL, I did not had in mind...

This below, which can be anachronistic, the real reason behind this AH scenario that I had in mind would be to make a smaller Brazil, in preference the smallest as possible, but without balkanizing it, or making it a tiny state, this diminished Brazil will still be enormous, but not as big as...

From 1570-1575, 9 regional coastal powers (Bijapur, Calicut, Ahmednagar, Garsopa, Ullal, Aceh, Kalianyamat, Ternate and Tidore) launched a series of near simultaneous wars against Portugal's early Asian footholds with the aim of expelling the Portuguese from the Indian Ocean basin. OTL, the...

Luís de Meneses, 3rd count of Ericeira, was a Portuguese noble and statesman who served as the king Pedro II's minister of finance from 1675 until his untimely death in 1690. During his time in office he pursued a mercantilist economic policy, banning or limiting the imports of certain products...