OS PRIMÓRDIOS DA CARTOGRAFIA GEOPOLÍTICA EM PORTUGAL: O "ATLAS" DA PRIMEIRA GUERRA MUNDIAL (1914-1918) DO JORNAL O COMÉRCIO DO PORTO.

THE FIRST WORLD WAR WAS, MOST LIKELY, THE FIRST GLOBALLY MEDIATED CONFLICT. IN FACT, TECHNICAL INNOVATIONS IN TEXT AND IMAGE PRINTING, ADVANCES IN PHOTOGRAPHY, AND COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES, MADE IT POSSIBLE TO FOLLOW THE MAIN POLITICAL AND MILITARY EVENTS. THUS, PROPAGANDA ACTIONS GAINED PROMINENCE, ESPECIALLY ON THE PART OF THE BELLIGERENT COUNTRIES, WHICH USED NEWSPAPERS TO CONVEY THEIR MESSAGES TO THE PUBLIC. IN THIS REGARD, PHOTOGRAPHS AND IMAGES SERVED AS VISUAL SUPPORT IN DISSEMINATING NEWS ABOUT THE EVERCHANGING BATTLEFRONTS, PROVIDING READERS WITH MAPS THAT DEPICTED THE FRONTLINES, TROOP ADVANCES AND RETREATS, AND CHANGES IN THE POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THIS GLOBAL CONFLICT. IN THE CASE OF PORTUGAL, WE CAN HIGHLIGHT THE CONTRIBUTION OF O COMÉRCIO DO PORTO, A DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THE CITY OF PORTO. SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE CONFLICT, IT PROVIDED EXTENSIVE JOURNALISTIC COVERAGE, RICHLY ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS, AND, IN SPECIAL EDITIONS, PHOTOGRAPHIC REPORTS. IN ADDITION TO FULFILLING THEIR INFORMATIVE FUNCTION, THE MAPS IN THE PORTO NEWSPAPER - MOSTLY OF BRITISH ORIGIN - PLAYED A ROLE AS VEHICLES OF ALLIED PROPAGANDA, SPREADING A UNIQUE TYPE OF "SUGGESTIVE" AND "GEOPOLITICAL" CARTOGRAPHY AMONG THE PORTUGUESE PUBLIC. THIS KIND OF CARTOGRAPHY WOULD CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN THE DECADES THAT FOLLOWED, UP TO THE END OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR. THEREFORE, IN THIS TEXT, WE WILL ANALYSE THE MAPS PUBLISHED IN THIS NEWSPAPER, PAYING ATTENTION TO THEIR TYPOLOGY AND RESPECTIVE PROPAGANDISTIC MESSAGES, SEEKING TO IDENTIFY SOME OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF PORTUGAL'S EMBRYONIC GEOPOLITICAL REFLECTION. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]