January 2001
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At a moment when current research regains a major interest for Portuguese traditional settlements and the investigation of what might be considered a Portuguese urban pattern implemented on its former colonial territories, we propose the review of the most relevant publishing of the eighties and the nineties concerning the 15th-17th centuries realities. This paper is preceded by a presentation of five related essays written between the mid sixties and the late seventies by Orlando Ribeiro (1911-1997), the celebrated 'classic' Portuguese geographer, four of them published for the first time only in 1994.