Word: aldeamentos
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Another indication that the Portuguese do not have a large is given by the policies they feel compelled to follow in the countryside. The government has concentrated small rural villages into larger hamlets, called aldeamentos, and thus made contact and cooperation with independence movements more observable and more easily disrupted. In each aldeamento, the government appoints a regedor, who serves as a liason with the authorities and sets up a hamlet-militia...
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