Recensões: Atlas de Portugal

Summary

This is an academic review of the Atlas de Portugal by Amorim Girão. The review notes that the first edition (1941) is sold out and a second edition is planned but delayed due to the author's commitments. It emphasizes that the new atlas will be a completely new work, primarily aimed at presenting Portugal and its territories across continents as a unified whole, highlighting their cohesion and solidarity amid international instability. To this end, it will include three historical maps to explain Portugal's origins, global expansion, and contemporary presence from a historical perspective. The atlas will feature bilingual Portuguese-English commentaries and be issued in installments to meet growing international interest, especially from the United States. The review also criticizes errors in identifying and locating place names in Portuguese medieval documents, suggesting a geographical appendix for corrections.