Scubarob.love presents: The Portuguese Colonization of Madeira

The Portuguese Colonization of Madeira Madeira is a group of volcanic islands in the North Atlantic which were colonised by the Portuguese from 1420. The settlement and distribution of land rights on the uninhabited islands was a model the Portuguese Crown would copy in other colonial island groups and in Brazil. The Madeira archipelago was …

See https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1756/the-portuguese-colonization-of-madeira/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ancienthistoryencyclopedia+%28World+History+Encyclopedia%29 for more