Portuguese trading settlement (from 1557) and later formal colony on the Pearl River Delta, the earliest and last European colonial holding in China; renowned as a long-running Sino-Portuguese cultural and commercial bridge.
Handed over to the People's Republic of China on 20 December 1999, becoming the Macau Special Administrative Region under 'one country, two systems.'
Concise modern academic history of the settlement/colony from its founding through the 1999 handover.