Morocco and the Atlantic islands: conquest and settlement. (2)

17 Março 2016, 14:00 • José Damião Rodrigues

Morocco and the Atlantic islands: conquest and settlement.

The Portuguese in Morocco from Manuel I to the battle of Al-Ksar al-Kabir (1578). The Sadian sharifs' jihad, large-scale warfare and Portugal's more defensive posture. War, treasure and supplies: the wheat-supply problem; Andalusian and Azorean wheat as a major resorce for the Portuguese strongholds. The Portuguese fortresses as frontiers.

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DUNCAN, T. Bentley, Atlantic Islands. Madeira, the Azores and the Cape Verdes in Seventeenth-Century Commerce and Navigation, Chicago-London, The Chicago University Press, 1972;

RICARD, Robert, Études sur l'histoire des Portugais au Maroc, Coimbra, Universidade de Coimbra, 1955.