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Portrait of Peter II of Portugal

Portugal

Peter II of Portugal

Reign
16831706
Life
1648–1706

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Cover of A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire

A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire

A. R. Disney

Peter II, Brazil, the Methuen Treaty, and Portugal's eighteenth-century recovery.

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