António de Oliveira Salazar
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António de Oliveira Salazar was a Portuguese dictator, academic, and economist who served as the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1932 to 1968. Having come to power under the Ditadura Nacional, he refr
Formal portrait, c. 1968
Salazar's birthplace in Santa Comba Dão
A propaganda poster depicting Salazar as King Afonso I of Portugal. The motto on the shield says "Everything for the nation, nothing against the nation" and that at the foot says "Fortunate fatherland that has such sons".
Tarrafal concentration camp
Carnation Revolution
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The Carnation Revolution, code-named Operation Historic Turn, also known as the 25 April, was a military coup in Portugal by officers that on 25 April 1974 overthrew Marcelo Caetano and the Estado Nov
António de Oliveira Salazar
…a coma in 1968, President Américo Tomás dismissed him from the position of President of the Council of Ministers. The Estado Novo collapsed during the Carnation Revolution of 1974, four years after Salazar's death. Salazar was born in Vimieiro, near Santa Comba Dão (Viseu District), to a family of modest income on 28 April…
A crowd celebrates on a Panhard EBR armoured car in Lisbon, 25 April 1974.
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1976 campaign poster for Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, a leader of the Carnation Revolution
Originally named after former Prime Minister António de Oliveira Salazar, the 25 de Abril Bridge is a Lisbon icon