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	EH.Net Encyclopedia: Economic History of Portugal
		Serfdom was not exceptionally widespread in early Portugal – and tended to disappear from the thirteenth century onwards.
		Portugal was the pioneer of transoceanic navigation, discovering lands and sea routes formerly unknown to Europeans, and starting trades and commercial routes that linked Europe to other continents in a totally unprecedented fashion.
		Portugal kept most of its positions both in Africa and America, and this part of the world was to acquire extreme importance in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
	eh.net /encyclopedia/article/amaral.portugal (9498 words)

	Portugal. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Portugal is bordered by Spain on the east and north and by the Atlantic Ocean on the west and south.
		Estremadura, in W Portugal, has broad, alluvial plains, rising to cool and rocky uplands; along the Atlantic coast is a celebrated resort region, reaching to the town of Estoril, near Lisbon.
		Portugal’s colony of Goa was seized by India in 1961.
	www.bartleby.com /65/po/Portugal.html (3353 words)

	Abarbanel Wines \| The Abarbanel Family in Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Portugal was entering the age of exploration and acquiring new territories and becoming rich.
		This Uncle Afonso was a "feudalist," a person who supported the king and the monarchy, but believed the noblemen, the church and the military should play an important role along with the king in ruling a kingdom.
		On August 18, 1481, Afonso V, the protector of the Jews and Abarbanel's benefactor, died unexpectedly at age forty-nine, a victim of the plague.
	www.abarbanel.com /portugal.shtml (2188 words)

	Portugal tours. Oporto and Lisbon tours in Portugal. Guided travel and sightseeing tours of Portugal. Cheap private ...
		Afonso III definitively conquered the south of Portugal in 1249, in other words, 243 years before Spain conquering Granada in 1492 (also the year of the discovery of America).
		He was followed Felipe III and Felipe IV from Spain, lacking the latest the respect for the Portuguese autonomy and provoking the revolt that established the independence in 1640.
		From 1910 to 1926 there was a troubled period of Portugal political history, with plenty of revolutions and changes of Government giving origin to the dictatorship, which lasted up to 1974, when a revolution brought democracy to Portugal and independence to the colonies that Portugal still possessed in Africa and Asia.
	www.lisboatours.com /Portugal_History.html (470 words)

	Ancestors and Family of Alfonso III of Portugal
		Afonso III of Portugal (the Burgundian), fifth king of Portugal, was born in Coimbra on May 5, 1210 and died in February 16, 1279, in the same city.
		As the second son of Afonso II of Portugal, Afonso was not expected to inherit the throne, which was thought destined to his brother Sancho.
		Afonso, prince of Portugal (1263-1312), married to princess Violante of Castile
	nygaard.howards.net /files/200.htm (530 words)

	Portugal
		In 1250-51 Alfonso III conquered the Moorish kingdom of Algarve for Portugal.
		Diniz's reign was notable for the termination of the wars between Portugal and the united kingdoms of Leon and Castile, achieved by marriage, and for encouragement of Portuguese agriculture, trade, and arts.
		Son of Afonso II and grandson of Sancho I; defeated Moors at Tavira and Cacela (1238-39); reign marked by internal disorders; inability to govern led to deposition by Pope Innocent IV (1245); administration entrusted to his brother Afonso (later Afonso III).
	website.lineone.net /~johnbidmead/portugal.htm (7374 words)

	Afonso II of Portugal - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		He was the son of Sancho I of Portugal by his wife, Dulce of Barcelona, princess of Aragon.
		Hitherto, Sancho I his father and Afonso I his grandfather, were mostly concerned with military issues either against the neighbouring Castile or against the Moors in the South.
		With Portugal position as a country firmly established, Afonso II endeavoured to weaken the power of the clergy and to apply a portion of the enormous revenues of the Catholic church to purposes of national utility.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=1658 (447 words)

	Portugal : In Depth : History \| Frommers.com
		The Lusitanian (ancient Portugal was known as Lusitania) leader, Viriatus, looms large in Portuguese history as a freedom fighter who held up the Roman advance; he died about 139 B.C. The Romans were ultimately unstoppable, however, and by the time of Julius Caesar, Portugal had been integrated into the Roman Empire.
		João III (reigned 1521-57) ushered in the Jesuits and the Inquisition.
		Portugal took a major leap in 1999 when it became part of the euro community, adopting a single currency along with other European nations such as Spain, Italy, Germany, and France.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/portugal/0235020044.html (2183 words)

	Portugal - Political and Social Organization
		Afonso Henriques and subsequent Portuguese kings ruled by divine right until a constitutional monarchy was established in the early nineteenth century.
		After the Cortes of Leiria, which was convoked in 1254 by Afonso III, representatives of the self-governing settler communities began to attend.
		As to territorial administration, northern Portugal was subdivided into estates (terras), each a quasi-autonomous political and economic unit of feudal suzerainity governed by a nobleman (donatário) whose title to the land was confirmed by the king.
	countrystudies.us /portugal/12.htm (857 words)

	Jewish Portugal
		Afonso Henriques entrusted Yahia Ben Yahi III with the post of supervisor of tax collection and nominated him the first chief rabbi of Portugal.
		The crisis culminated in the establishment of the Avis dynasty and the accession of Joao I to the throne.
		Nevertheless, if this was the golden age of the Jewish community in Portugal, when crucially important contributions were made to the development of the county at the economic, cultural and scientific level, it was also a period during which the first, major social tensions between Jews and Christians were to appear.
	www.isjm.org /country/portugal.htm (1583 words)

	Lisbon History
		Determined to recapture Lisbon, Afonso Henriques, the first king of Portugal, enlisted knights on their way to the Second Holy Land Crusade with promises of spoils and land.
		Four months into the siege, Afonso Henriques accepted the starving Moors' call for a truce but only as a ploy to overrun the city while its guard was down.
		Portugal was forced to incorporate three quarters of a million retornados, people of Portuguese descent fleeing independent Africa for their official homeland.
	members.tripod.com /~Alhea/lisboa_history.htm (523 words)

	Afonso I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Afonso Henriques declared himself King in 1139, but was only confirmed in this by the Pope forty years later.
		He won a great battle against five Moslem kings, and in commemoration of this he took the device of Portugal - five shields representing the Moslem kings surrounding a cross made of five shields, showing the 30 pieces of silver for which Christ was betrayed.
		In 1160 Afonso Henriques’ daughter was betrothed to Count Ramon Berenguer of Provence, son of Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona, but the count died before the marriage.
	www.thornr.demon.co.uk /kchrist/afonso1.html (331 words)

	Afonso IV of Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first-born of this union, princess Maria of Portugal, married King Alfonso XI of Castile in 1328, at the same time that Afonso IV's heir, Peter I of Portugal, was promised to another Castilian princess, Constance of Penafiel.
		Afonso IV was displeased with his son's choice of lovers, and hoped that the relationship would be a futile one.
		Afonso married Beatrice of Castile (1293-1359) in 1309, daughter of Sancho IV, King of Castile, and Maria de Molia and had four sons and three daughters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afonso_IV_of_Portugal (820 words)

	NationMaster - Statistics on Portugal. 2067 facts and figures, stats and information on Portuguese economy, crime, ...
		Following its heyday as a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence in 1822 of Brazil as a colony.
		Portugal is a founding member of NATO and entered the EC (now the EU) in 1986.
		In actuality the movement to make Portugal an actual country was started in 1127 when Dom Afonso Henriques began his revolt of the anexation of the area by the Kingdom of Leon.
	www.nationmaster.com /country/po-portugal (2264 words)

	Portugal-History
		Portugal is one of the first modern frontiers, becoming an independent state in 1140.
		Afonso II found the Roman Catholic Church to a problem in land ownership, leading to the confiscation of all church property.
		Portugal and England made and agreement for wine to be shipped to Portugal as long as the Portuguese removed their restriction of English goods to be imported into Portugal.
	fits.depauw.edu /mkfinney/culturaleresumes/portugal/history.htm (642 words)

	Kingdom of Portugal - History - Portugal - Europe
		Afonso I, aided by military religious orders—crusading organizations of knights sworn to fight the Muslims—extended the border of the new kingdom as far south as the Tajo.
		Afonso’s son, Sancho I, who reigned from 1185 to 1211, encouraged Christians to settle in conquered areas by establishing self-governing municipalities there.
		King Afonso III, who reigned from 1248 to 1279, completed the expulsion of the Muslims from the southernmost region of Algarve.
	www.countriesquest.com /europe/portugal/history/kingdom_of_portugal.htm (204 words)

	Portugal - Dynastic Crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		When João III died in 1557, the only surviving heir to the throne was his three-year-old son, Sebastião, who took over the government at the age of fourteen.
		This force routed the army of rival contender, António, prior of Crato and the illegitimate son of João III's son Luís.
		Portugal was annexed by Spain, and Philip II was declared Filipe I of Portugal.
	countrystudies.us /portugal/28.htm (232 words)

	Algarve, Portugal
		The capture of Faro by King Afonso III of Portugal in 1249 marked the first stage in the recovery of the territory from the Moors.
		The Algarve then became the last element to be incorporated in Portugal, an independent kingdom subject to the Portuguese crown in a personal union.
		50% of all visitors to Portugal spend their holidays here; the rest of the country does not experience anything like the degree of mass tourism that has developed in the Algarve during recent years.
	www.planetware.com /portugal/algarve-p-faro-algar.htm (842 words)

	Portugal > Travel > Algarve > Portugal Info - Algarve
		The first time that the Algarve was referred to as a part of the Kingdom was when Afonso III was crowned in 1249 he took the title of "King of Portugal and all Algarve".
		However, it was not until 1272 that Afonso III eventually took Faro which was the last stronghold of the Moors in the Algarve.
		This situation changed when the throne of Portugal fell vacant in 1580 and the nearest relative in line was King Felipe II of Spain who soon crowned himself as King of Portugal.
	www.portugal-info.net /algarve (1410 words)

	Portugal - historical flags (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		This period includes 60 years of spanish domination (1580-1640), during wich Portugal, as a separate realm ruled by the same king — Filipe II, III and IV (called I, II and III in Portugal) —, was allowed to use its own flags both in land and at sea.
		The liberal flag, a vertical bicolor of blue and white charged with the coat of arms, was used for 80 years (1830-1910), but was probably the first Portugal’s flag, in the modern sense of the word.
		The first National flag of Portugal must be considered that of 1830, even if in 1640 a flag of green with the Order of Christ cross on it was very popular and used as a symbol for the re-birth of the independent State.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/pt-hist.html (1398 words)

	Hotel Alfonso
		Afonso I of Portugal -- (1109-1185) "the Conqueror" (Afonso Henriques)
		Afonso I of Portugal -- (1094-1195) (Afonso Henriques)
		He was educated at the court of Afonso V of Portugal, and after the death of that monarch seems to have served for some time in Africa.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/88/hotel-alfonso.html (1674 words)

	Friends of Portugal
		In 1143 Portugal was raised to the status of a kingdom.
		Afonso III expanded this Kingdom southward to the Algarve in 1249, and under João I, Portuguese sailors began to explore the African coast and the Atlantic.
		For that brief moment in time, Portugal was the richest country in Europe.
	groups.msn.com /FriendsofPortugal (383 words)

	Alphonso III of Portugal
		Afonso III (1210 - 1279) was king of Portugal.
		The son of Afonso II, he succeeded his brother, Sancho II, in 1248 after effectively deposing him two years before.
		In his reign Algarve became part of Portugal following the capture of Faro - Portugal thus becoming the first Iberian Kingdom to complete her reconquasista.
	www.fastload.org /al/Alphonso_III_of_Portugal.html (131 words)

	Alfonso III King of Portugal: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		Portugal since the reign of Alfonso V. Their abandonment was...
		The implication...Carderera, I, pl. III, 1; and del...the region of La Rioja...1135 the king of Navarre...vassal of Alfonso VII of Castile...
		Alfonso completed the reconquest of Portugal from the Moors by taking...agreement by which Alfonso III married the illegitimate...
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	Afonso III of Portugal Summary
		Faro fell in 1249, and the rest of the Algarve was secured for Portugal according to the terms of a 1253 pact with Alfonso X of Castile.
		Although this marriage brought Alfonso III into disfavor with the Church, Beatrice was received by the Portuguese with all the honors of a queen.
		He was the second son of King Afonso II of Portugal and his wife, Urraca of Castile; he succeeded his brother, King Sancho II of Portugal in 1247.
	www.bookrags.com /Afonso_III_of_Portugal (1188 words)

	An African Voice of Protest
		Afonso promoted the introduction of European culture in his kingdom by adopting Christianity as the state religion (although most of his subjects, especially those in the hinterlands, were unaffected), imitating the etiquette of the Portuguese royal court, and using Portuguese as the language of state business.
		His son Henrique was educated in Portugal and returned to serve as West Africa's first fl Roman Catholic bishop.
		The documents are part of a collection of twenty-four letters that Afonso and his Portuguese-educated, native secretaries dispatched to the kings of Portugal on a variety of issues.
	www.wfu.edu /~watts/w04_Africa.html (659 words)

	Eric de Mello Home Page
		King of Portugal, he was at the conquest of Faro (the capital of Algarve, in the far south of the Portuguese region), was married with D.Teresa Afonso Gato, daughter of D.Afonso Pires Gato and his wife, D.Urraca Fernandes, they had children that followed with the surname de Mello, marking the beginning of the family.
		The lineage of D.Soeiro Raimundes de Riba de Vizela, founder of the village of Merlo - or «Melro» -, (contemporary of the kings D.Afonso III and D.Dinis) that was the lord of the house «de Riba de Vizela» and of «de Maia».
		The Arms of "Álvares Pereira de Mello" come from the Arms of the House of Bragança and they are: of silver, with a saltire-cross of red, with five shields of the Arms of the Kingdom of Portugal, four on each side of the cross and one in the middle.
	www.demello.de /coat_of_arms.html (1852 words)

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