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The Barnstar of National Merit
For your extensive work in articles pertaining to Portugal, I, Afonso Silva, hereby award you The Barnstar of National Merit. Parabéns!
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The Royalty and Nobility Barnstar
For your extensive work in articles pertaining to Portugal and it's royalty, I, User:BolinhasFofas, hereby award you The Barnstar Royalty and Nobility. Parabéns!
Tocopilla railway
The Tocopilla railway was a mountain railway built to serve the sodium nitrate mines in the Toco area of the Antofagasta Region in Chile. With a gauge of 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm), it ran from the port of Tocopilla on the Pacific coast up to a height of 4,902 feet (1,494 metres), with gradients up to 1 in 24. The railway was built by a joint-stock company founded in London and was designed by William Stirling of Lima, with a detailed description of the initial operation of the railway published by his brother Robert in 1900. The line was electrified in the mid-1920s and expanded in 1930 with the addition of lines serving new areas of mining. It continued operating into the 21st century, but was forced to close in 2015 when flash flooding caused numerous washouts on the electrified section of the railroad. With the declining prospects for nitrate, it was not economical for the line to be repaired. This photograph taken in 2013 shows a boxcab on the Tocopilla railway, leading a train down towards the coast.Photograph credit: David Gubler
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User:Joaopais/History of Portugal is a list of Portuguese History-related articles. It was created to keep track of History pages related to Portugal including dates, people, events, periods, etc. You may freely update it to reflect new articles, or add links to articles that ought to be created.

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From Joaopais's recent edits:

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Hi, my name is João and I'm from Portugal. I joined Wikipedia on 17 August 2004 and my first edit was on the article Portugal. I'm happy that my first edit was on a country that I am very proud to live, but I only realised that my first one was on Portugal almost two years after. Also of note, is that the second article I've edited was on a Portuguese clown: Batatinha! My major fields are History of Portugal and Portuguese politics, and to a minor degree, Portuguese football. I have an extensive work in three articles: John III of Portugal, History of Portugal (1578-1777) and History of Portugal (1777-1834). I'm also the founder of The Portugal Portal and a minor contributer, since I only sporadically update the news. You can also see my work in the ongoing process of creation/improving of the articles of Portuguese royal family members, and also in the templates on the four Portuguese dynasties: Template:House of Burgundy, Template:House of Aviz, Template:House of Habsburg and Template:House of Braganza. Regarding lists, I've been quite active in the promotion of List of Presidents of Portugal and List of Portuguese monarchs to featured status, and I'm currently working on List of Prime Ministers of Portugal. I was also a (incredibly) minor editor in the also featured List of municipalities of Portugal. In the end, I'd like to say I consider myself a little IPA-pronunciations-maniac, since every article that seems Portuguese to me immediately receives an IPA pronunciation.

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I hereby give you our national barnstar of merit for all your outstanding work on Portuguese articles. Nunca pares.--Saoshyant 22:54, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
A barnstar for your fantastic and very detailed WW1 and WW2 maps! Astrokey 06:07, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

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