Meanings of long dictatorship in English

Portugal, like neighbouring Spain, is still struggling to come to terms with a long dictatorship.

Only one minority administration has completed its full term since Portugal's decades- long dictatorship ended in 1974.

Soldiers at the ceremony described the 21-year- long dictatorship as a time of economic progress for the country.

The deal would also include all the previous benefits that the former President enjoyed during his long dictatorship in the country.

Around 3,000 people are thought to have been killed by the brutal 17-year- long dictatorship that ensued.

For Portugal, the resistance in its outlying African Empire weakened control; corruption grew and the long dictatorship of Salazar was overthrown-withouta bloodbath.

A country like this is never so barren of political intellect and courage as to admit of a long dictatorship in political life.

They have long believed it is the only glue capable of bonding the fractious national project called Spain after the long dictatorship of Gen Franco.

The film is set in the run up to Portugal's 1974 "Carnation" revolution that ended a four-decade- long dictatorship and led the country to democracy.