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Combatant States - Central powers | Austro - Hungary | Germany | Turkey (Ottoman Empire) | Bulgaria
Combatant States - Allies | Serbia | Russia | France | Belgium | United Kingdom | Australia | Canada | India | New Zealand | Rhodesia | Union of South Africa | United States of America| Italy | Romania | Greece | Montenegro | Portugal | Japan
Entered War : 9 March 1916 (Germany declared war on Portugal after the Portuguese government seized German merchant ships seeking refuge in its harbours)
Political system : Republic (since 1910)
Leader : Manoel de Arriaga: president, 1911-1915
Teofilo Braga: president, 1915
Bernardino Machado: president, 1915-1917
Sidonia Pais: president, 1917-1918
Population : 6.2 million (1916)
Army : 33,000 men (1914). A total of 100,000 Portuguese troops served in Mozambique and on the Western Front during the war
Navy : 1 battleship, 4 cruisers, 9 destroyers, 1 submarine (1914)
Air Force : 4 training aircraft (1916)
Recent Diplomacy : Portuguese and German troops clashed on the frontier between German South-West Africa and Angola in 1914, but this did not lead to a formal declaration of war.
Casualties by 1918 : 7,222 dead, 13,751 wounded