European Portuguese (português europeu in Portuguese, ) refers to the variety of Portuguese spoken in continental Portugal, as well as the Azores and Madeira islands. The word “European” was chosen to avoid the clash of “Portuguese Portuguese” as opposed to Brazilian Portuguese.
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“England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)