The Fuzileiros Navais (Portuguese for Naval Fusiliers) are the Marines of Portugal and Brasil. Portuguese ( or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia (Spain and northern Portugal. Fusilier was originally the name of a soldier armed with a light flintlock Musket called the fusil. Marines (from the English adjective marine, meaning of the sea, from Latin language mare, meaning sea via French adjective Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. |utc_offset = -2 to -4 |time_zone_DST = BRST |utc_offset_DST = -2 to -5 |cctld
The Portuguese Marine Corps (Corpo de Fuzileiros are the amphibious infantry of the Portuguese Navy. The Corps of Naval Fusiliers ( Portuguese: Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais; CFN) is the land combat branch of the Brazilian Navy.