EMGFA - Lisboa, Portugal
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N 38° 42.199 W 009° 12.416
29S E 482006 N 4283874
This is the higher command of Portuguese Armed Forces, located in Lisbon.
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Location: Lisboa, Portugal
Date Posted: 11/08/2014
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EMGFA is the acronym for Estado Maior das Forças Armadas, or, a possible translation to English, General Staff of the Armed Forces.
It is located in Lisbon, in a neighborhood named Restelo, packed with embassies and luxurious villas.
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"The present Armed Forces General Staff was created in 1950, as the Secretariat-General of National Defence (Portuguese: Secretariado-Geral da Defesa Nacional) or SGDN. The SGDN was the central planning organization of the Defense, being headed by the Chief of the Armed Forces General Staff, under the dependency of the minister of National Defense (both roles also being created at the same time). Besides having the role of secretary-general of the SGDN, the CEMGFA also assumed most of the responsibilities until then assigned to the military heads of the Navy and of the Army (the then existing service branches, as the Air Force would only be created in 1952). The creation of the SGDN and of the roles of CEMGFA and minister of National Defense marked the integration of the several military service branches and so the creation of the Armed Forces of Portugal as single organization
In 1969, it was decreed that SGDN should be remodeled in order to be transformed in the EMGFA, as the organization for the joint administration of the Armed Forces. However, transformation of the SGDN in to the EMGFA eventually occurred only in 1974."