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The firm was established as the first PortuguesePortuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
newspaper on 22 January 1900 by Prof. Messias Gomes and Luís de Menezes Bragança
Luís de Menezes Bragança
Luís de Menezes Bragança , alternatively spelled as Luís de Menezes Braganza, was a prominent Indo-Portuguese journalist, writer, politician and anti-colonial activist from Goa. He was one of the few Goan aristocrats who actively opposed the Portuguese occupation of Goa...
in Goa, the O Heraldo which was critical of Portuguese colonial rule, which was later transformed into an English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
daily in 1987.