Search Results: Macao

Macao (Macau) is located on a peninsula in the estuary of the Pearl River delta in southeast China and it was a Portuguese colonial settlement from c. 1557 until 1999. Macao was a major trade hub of the Portuguese Empire and with its unique...

Nagasaki, on the northwest coast of Japan’s Kyushu Island, was an important Portuguese trading base from c. 1571 to 1639, and the most eastern outpost of the Portuguese empire. The Portuguese presence transformed Nagasaki from a small fishing...

A map showing the location of Portuguese Macao, a colony of the Portuguese Empire from c. 1557 to 1999. Macao is now a part of the People's Republic of China.

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

A panoramic painting of Portuguese Macao, a colony of the Portuguese Empire from c. 1557 to 1999. Painted c. 1870 by an unknown artist.

The Estado da India (1505-1961) was the name the Portuguese gave to that part of their empire which stretched from India to East Asia. However, in its widest sense, the name includes all Portuguese colonies east of the Cape of Good Hope and...

The Portuguese Empire was established from the 15th century and eventually stretched from the Americas to Japan. Very often a string of coastal trading centres with defensive fortifications, there were larger territorial colonies like Brazil...

Zheng Yi Sao (aka Ching Shih, Cheng I Sao, Ching Yih Saou or Mrs Cheng, d. 1844) was the chief of a massive pirate confederation which plundered the South China Sea in the early 19th century. She inherited the role from her late husband...

Cochin, located on the southwest coast of India, was a Portuguese colony from 1503 to 1663. Known to the Portuguese as Cochim, it was one of several important cities on India’s Malabar Coast and a great trade centre for spices like pepper...

In this first part of of a three part series, we look at the history of Macau and how the Portuguese came to perpetually administer Macau over the centuries. Read the script here: https://www.sinospheres.com/looking-back-at-the-macau-handover/...