History Of Macau
Macau is a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China. Macau became a colony of the Portuguese empire in 1537. It was lent to the Portugal as a trading post but remained under Chinese authority and sovereignty. Self administration was not achieved until the 1840s and it was subsequently transitioned into a Portuguese territory when Qing signed the Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Peking, until its handover to China in 1999. It was the last European territory in continental (on-shore) Asia.
Read more about History Of Macau: Early History, Portuguese Settlement, Macau's Golden Age, Decline, The Hong Kong Effect, Slave Trade, World War II, Macau and Communist China, Handover To The People's Republic of China
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