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This is a list of archives in Portugal.

Archives in Portugal

District archives

Further information (in Portuguese): Portuguese district archives^[pt]

Arquivo Distrital de Braga [pt] (est. 1917), Braga District [1]
Arquivo Distrital de Aveiro [pt], Aveiro District^[1]
Arquivo Distrital de Beja
Arquivo Distrital de Bragança
Arquivo Distrital de Castelo Branco
Arquivo Distrital de Évora
Arquivo Distrital de Faro
Arquivo Distrital da Guarda
Arquivo Distrital de Leiria
Arquivo Distrital de Lisboa (abolished in 2012; materials transferred to the Torre do Tombo National Archive)^[1]^[2]
Arquivo Distrital de Portalegre
Arquivo Distrital do Porto (est. 1931) [2]^[3]
Arquivo Distrital de Santarém
Arquivo Distrital de Setúbal [3]
Arquivo Distrital de Viana do Castelo
Arquivo Distrital de Vila Real [4]
Arquivo Distrital de Viseu

Municipal archives

Alentejo Region

Arquivo Municipal de Beja^[4]
Arquivo Municipal de Estremoz
Arquivo Municipal de Mértola
Arquivo Municipal de Moura
Arquivo Municipal de Reguengos de Monsaraz

Algarve Region

Arquivo Histórico Municipal de Albufeira
Arquivo Municipal de Lagoa
Arquivo Municipal de Loulé
Arquivo Municipal de Olhão
Arquivo Municipal de Silves
Arquivo Municipal de Tavira
Arquivo Municipal de Vila do Bispo
Arquivo Municipal de Vila Real de Santo António

Centro Region

Arquivo Municipal de Benavente
Arquivo Municipal de Constância
Arquivo Municipal de Estarreja
Arquivo Municipal de Ferreira do Zêzere
Centro de Documentação de Ílhavo - Arquivo Municipal
Arquivo Municipal de Lourinhã
Arquivo Municipal da Mealhada
Arquivo Municipal da Murtosa
Arquivo Municipal de Ovar
Arquivo Municipal de São Pedro do Sul
Arquivo Municipal de Torres Novas
Arquivo Municipal de Torres Vedras

Lisboa Region

Arquivo Municipal de Vila Franca de Xira
Arquivo Histórico Municipal de Cascais, Cascais

Norte Region

Arquivo Municipal de Arcos de Valdevez
Arquivo Municipal de Arouca
Arquivo Municipal de Caminha
Arquivo Municipal de Melgaço
Arquivo Municipal de Monção
Arquivo Municipal de Oliveira de Azeméis
Arquivo Municipal de Paredes de Coura
Arquivo Municipal de Ponte da Barca
Arquivo Municipal de Ponte de Lima
Arquivo Municipal de Santa Maria da Feira
Arquivo Municipal de Vale de Cambra
Arquivo Municipal de Valença
Arquivo Municipal de Viana do Castelo
Arquivo Municipal de Vila Nova de Cerveira
Arquivo Municipal de Vila Verde

National archives

Torre do Tombo National Archive
Arquivo Central da Marinha, Comissão Cultural da Marinha, Portuguese Navy, Lisbon [5]
Arquivo Histórico Diplomatico of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Portugal) Instituto Diplomático [pt]
Arquivo Histórico Militar, Lisbon
Arquivo Historico Parlamentar, Lisbon
Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino
Biblioteca e Arquivo Histórico do Ministério das Obras Públicas, Transportes, e Comunicaçôes (Ministry of Planning and Infrastructure)
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (National Library)^[5][6][7]
Cinemateca Portuguesa
National Archive for Portugal’s Directorate General of Cultural Heritage (SIPA)

Other

There are many other archives in Portugal, such as:

Fundação Mário Soares [pt] Arquivo & Biblioteca, Lisbon (related to 20th c. politician Mário Soares) [8]
Arquivo dos Açores [pt]
Arquivo Regional e Biblioteca Pública da Madeira [pt]
Biblioteca Pública e Arquivo Regional Luís da Silva Ribeiro [pt]
Centro de documentação 25 de Abril [pt], University of Coimbra
Centro de Documentação Bissaya Barreto [pt], Coimbra

References

Bibliography

in English

Crump, Charles George (1911). "Record" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 958–966, see page 964. Portugal.—Portuguese royal records are in the monastery of Sao Bento at Lisbon....It includes the registers of the Chancery since the 13th century, and a large number of documents subsidiary to them. In addition to this repository there are collections at the various ministries; from the records of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Borges de Castro, and afterwards Judice Biker, published their Collecção dos Tratados . . . entre a Corona de Portugal e as mais potentias. There are three volumes of transcripts from Portuguese records in the English Public Record Office.
Bailey Wallys Diffie (1953), Bibliography of the principal published guides to Portuguese archives and libraries
A. F. C. Ryder (1965). Materials for West African history in Portuguese archives. Athlone Press. OCLC 340165.
Ann Pescatello (1970). "Relatorio from Portugal: The Archives and Libraries of Portugal and Their Significance for the Study of Brazilian History". Latin American Research Review. 5. JSTOR 2502224.
Lawrence J. McCrank, ed. (1993). Discovery in the archives of Spain and Portugal : quincentenary essays, 1492-1992. New York: Haworth Press. ISBN 156024643X.
- Timothy J. Coates (1993). "Sources in Portuguese and Goan (India) Archives and Libraries (1500-1755): A Guide and Commentary". Primary Sources & Original Works. 2 (3-4: Access and Research in Iberian Archives). doi:10.1300/J269v02n03_01.
Daniela Kirchner, ed. (1995). "Portugal". Film and Television Collections in Europe: the MAP-TV Guide. EU MEDIA Programme and Routledge. pp. 407–425. ISBN 978-1-135-37262-0.
Paul Bjerk (2004). "African Files in Portuguese Archives". History in Africa. 31. doi:10.1017/S0361541300003624.

in Portuguese

Anais das bibliotecas e arquivos [Annals of Libraries and Archives] (in Portuguese), Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa, OCLC 49996453 – via Biblioteca Nacional Digital 1914-

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