Portuguese Nagasaki
Ecclesiastical Nagasaki | |||||||||||||
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| 1580–1587 | |||||||||||||
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Flag of Portuguese Nagasaki | |||||||||||||
| Status | Colony (Jesuits, Portuguese) | ||||||||||||
| Capital | Nagasaki City | ||||||||||||
| Common languages | Portuguese, Japanese, Japanese-Portuguese pidgin | ||||||||||||
| King of Portugal | |||||||||||||
• 1581–1598 | Philip I | ||||||||||||
| Visitor of Missions in the Indies | |||||||||||||
• 1573-1606 | Alessandro Valignano | ||||||||||||
| Superior of the Japan mission | |||||||||||||
• 1581–1590 | Gaspar Coelho | ||||||||||||
| Historical era | Imperialism | ||||||||||||
• Donation of Nagasaki | 15 August 1580 | ||||||||||||
• Annexation of Nagasaki by Toyotomi Hideyoshi | 14 January 1587 | ||||||||||||
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Portuguese Nagasaki and Ecclesiastical Nagasaki refer to the period during which the city of Nagasaki was under foreign administration, between 1580 and 1587. Formally granted to the Jesuits, a representative of the Portuguese Crown was considered the highest authority in the city when present, as per Portuguese rights of Padroado.