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An illustration of a Portuguese carrack ship from a 16th-century map. (Digital Library, University of Minnesota)

A model of a 15th-century Portuguese caravel with lateen sails. The caravel was an important element of Portugal's ambitions to build an empire. (National Maritime Museum, Paris)

Museum display at the Baan Kudichin Museum in Bangkok, Thailand showing furniture, bed and religious icons from former homes in the Kudeejeen community (a Portuguese community).

Azulejos (glazed ceramic tiles) on a building in Lisbon, Portugal. Date of photo unknown.

A silver crown with diamonds from Portugal c. 1800. The crown measures 19.4 × 14.6 cm or 7 5/8 × 5 3/4 in. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

A polychrome faience azulejo (or glazed ceramic tile) showing a vase of flowers with cherubim. This tile is typical of designs influenced by Portugal's overseas colonies and territories. The tile is from Nossa Senhora da Esperança Convent...

A 19th-century painting by an unknown artist of Portuguese Macao, a colony of the Portuguese Empire from c. 1557 to 1999.

A Japanese painted screen by Kanō Naizen showing a Portuguese carrack ship and traders. The Portuguese controlled the trading port of Nagasaki from c. 1571 to 1639. (Kobe City Museum, Japan)

An 1816 painting of Rio de Janeiro. Rio was made sole capital of Portuguese Brazil in 1763. Painted by Nicolas-Antoine Taunay. (Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio)

This map illustrates the rise and global reach of the Portuguese Empire, the first and longest-lived of Europe’s overseas empires. Initiated in the 15th century, Portugal's expansion was driven by a desire to control trade routes to the East...