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 | | Other important influences were the Romans (the Portuguese language derives from Latin; one can consider that the Romans were the most important cultural influence), the Visigoths and the Suevi (Quadi and Marcomanni), all of whom settled in what is today Portuguese territory. |
 | | Minor influences were the Greeks and the Phoenicians-Carthaginians (small semi-permanent commercial coastal establishments), the Vandals (Silingi and Hasdingi) and the sarmatian Alans (both expelled or partially integrated by the Visigoths and Suevi), and the Moors (mainly Berber with some Arab, expelled or converted to Catholicism after the Christian reconquest or Reconquista). |
 | | As with all european countries, there has been in Portugal a great deal of admixture from other european nations, past and present, namely French, German, English, Scottish, Irish, Dutch and Flemish, Italian and Spanish. |
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