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2014Celebrating the Relations Portugal Mexico - Set

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  • 06.06.2014
  • Helder Soares
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  • 4 Colours
  • 40 x 30.6 mm
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About Celebrating the Relations Portugal Mexico

The first known interactions between the Portuguese and the Mexicans occurred between 1519 and 1521, during the period in which Fernando Cortês may have settled in the land of the Aztecs. Diplomatic relations between Portugal and Mexico began a few centuries later, when in 1864 Francisco Facio, Ambassador of Mexico residing in Madrid, presented his credentials in Lisbon. The reciprocal act occurred on July 19, 1865, by the Viscount of Sotto Mayor, then Resident Minister in Denmark.

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