County of Portugal
The County of Portugal (Portuguese: [Condado de Portugal, Condado Portucalense, Condado de Portucale] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help); in documents of the period the name used was Portugalia[1]) refers to two successive medieval counties in the region around Braga and Porto, today corresponding to littoral northern Portugal, within which the identity of the Portuguese people formed. The first county existed from the mid-ninth to the mid-eleventh centuries as a vassalage of the Kingdom of Asturias and later the Kingdoms of Galicia and León, before being abolished as a result of rebellion. A larger entity under the same name was then reestablished in the late 11th century and subsequently elevated by its count in the mid-12th century into an independent Kingdom of Portugal.
County of Portugal Condado Portucalense Condado de Portugal | |||||||||||||||
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| 868–1139 | |||||||||||||||
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| Second County of Portugal Second County of Portugal | |||||||||||||||
| Status | Vassalage of the Kingdoms of Asturias, Galicia and León | ||||||||||||||
| Capital | Guimarães | ||||||||||||||
| Common languages | Old Portuguese Mozarabic Andalusian Arabic | ||||||||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism Islam Judaism | ||||||||||||||
| Government | Feudal monarchy | ||||||||||||||
| Count of Portugal | |||||||||||||||
• 868–873 | Vímara Peres (first of the first county) | ||||||||||||||
• 1050–1071 | Nuno II Mendes (last of the first county; Brief Annexation to the Kingdom of León | ||||||||||||||
• 1096–1112 | Henry of Burgundy (first of second county) | ||||||||||||||
• 1112–1139 | Afonso Henriques (last of the second county) | ||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||
• | 868 | ||||||||||||||
• | 1139 | ||||||||||||||
| ISO 3166 code | PT | ||||||||||||||
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| Today part of |  Portugal Galicia | ||||||||||||||
County Of Portugal Media
Iberian Peninsula around 900, First County of Portugal show in lavender blue.
Iberian Peninsula around 1115, Second County of Portugal show in pale red.
- NorthenIberia1126.jpg
Political map of the north part of the Iberian peninsula in the year 1126
- House of Vimara Peres.PNG
Image of the genealogy of the Counts of the First County of Portugal, the so called House of Vímara Peres, I had originally done and uploaded forthe English language Wikipedia.
References
- ↑ Ribeiro, Ângelo; Hermano, José (2004), História de Portugal I – A Formação do Território [History of Portugal: The Formation of the Territory] (in português), QuidNovi, ISBN 989-554-106-6
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