Post-Kingdom Portugal

República Portuguesa
Portuguese Republic

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1910–1926

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Anthem
A Portuguesa

Capital

Lisbon

Government

Unitary parliamentary republic

President

- 1910-1915

Manuel de Arriaga

- 1915

Teófilo Braga

- 1915-1917

Bernardino Machado

- 1917-1918

Sidónio Pais

- 1918

João do Canto e Castro

- 1918-1923

António José de Almeida

History

- October 5, 1910

Revolution

- May 28, 1926

28 May Coup

Portuguese Empire

Portugal

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The First Portuguese republic was a state, succeeding the dissolved Kingdom of Portugal.

Background

The First Portuguese Republic (Portuguese: Primeira República Portuguesa; officially: República Portuguesa, Portuguese Republic) spans a complex 16-year period in the history of Portugal, between the end of the period of constitutional monarchy marked by the 5 October 1910 revolution and the 28 May 1926 coup d'état. The latter movement instituted a military dictatorship known as Ditadura Nacional (national dictatorship) that would be followed by the corporatist Estado Novo (new state) regime of António de Oliveira Salazar.

The sixteen years of the First Republic saw nine presidents and 44 ministries, and were altogether more of a transition between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Estado Novo than they were a coherent period of governance.^[1]