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	sociology - Portugal
		Portugal is bordered by Spain to the north and east and by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south.
		Because Philip II of Spain was the son of a Portuguese princess, the Spanish ruler became Philip I of Portugal in 1580.
		Portugal was recognized as a kingdom with its own king by Leon in 1143 and by the Pope in 1179.
	www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/Portugal (5568 words)

	Portugal - MSN Encarta
		Portugal kept its largest colony, Brazil, until the 19th century and its huge African empire until the late 20th century.
		Portugal joined the European Community (EC, a forerunner of the European Union) in 1986, and in 1999 adopted the euro, the EU’s common currency.
		Portugal also has abundant waterpower in its rivers and dammed lakes (called barragems), which the nation is continuing to develop.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761558260/Portugal.html (1332 words)

	Kingdom of Galicia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Suebi kingdom was not politically important; St Braulio of Zaragoza depicted it as "the extremity of the west in an illiterate country where naught is heard but the sound of gales".
		The Suebi kingdom of Gallaecia should not be mistaken for the later medieval kingdom of Galicia, which existed (off and on) from 910 to 1070.
		The kingdom was annexed by Alfonso VI of Castile.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kingdom_of_Galicia (1186 words)

	Kingdom of Galicia and Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kingdom of Galicia and Portugal was formed in 1065 after the County of Portugal declared independence following the death of Ferdinand I of Leon of Castile-Leon.
		Galicia was allotted to Garcia II of Galicia.
		The Count of Portugal, Nuno Mendes, took advantage of the internal tension caused by the civil war between Ferdinand's sons to finally break off and declare himself an independent ruler.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kingdom_of_Galicia_and_Portugal (269 words)

	BT Research - History of Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Lusitanians inhabit central Portugal, the Calaicians or Gallaeci northern Portugal, the Celtici are in Alentejo and the Conii are in the Algarve.
		1112 – Afonso Henriques inherits the County of Portugal, a fiefdom of the Kingdom of León.
		Portugal invades Conakry, in the Republic of Guinea.
	www.breathittteens.com /research.php?title=History_of_Portugal (8018 words)

	ipedia.com: Portugal Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Portugal is a democratic republic on the Iberian Peninsula (southwestern Europe), with several islands in the Atlantic Ocean (islands of Azores, Madeira, and Savage).
		Mainland Portugal is bordered by Spain to the north and east and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south.
		Portugal is the country for wine lovers, known since the Roman Empire as one of the greatest in the empire; the Romans immediately associated Portugal with its God of Winery and Feast, Bacchus.
	www.ipedia.com /portugal.html (4413 words)

	Portugal
		Portugal is bordered by Spain to the north and east and by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south.
		Because Philip II of Spain was the son of a Portuguese princess, the Spanish ruler became Philip I of Portugal in 1580.
		Portugal was recognized as a kingdom with its own king by Leon in 1143 and by the Pope in 1179.
	www.keywordmage.net /po/portugal.html (5152 words)

	Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Portugal is a democratic republic on the Iberian Peninsula (southwestern Europe) with several islands in the Atlantic (islands of Azores Madeira and Savage).
		Mainland Portugal is bordered by Spain to the north and east and Atlantic Ocean to the west and south.
		Portugal is country for wine lovers known since the Roman Empire as one of the greatest in empire; the Romans immediately associated Portugal with God of Winery and Feast Bacchus.
	www.freeglossary.com /Portugal (4452 words)

	Portugal - Gurupedia
		Mainland Portugal is bordered by Spain to the north and east and the
		Portugal traces its national origin to the Battle of São Mamede in 24th June 1128, when the first Portuguese King, Afonso I, son of Henry of Burgundy, proclaimed himself as Prince of Portugal and in 1139 as King of Portugal, outthrowning his mother, Teresa, Countess of Galicia and former Countess of Portugal.
		In 1249 - 1250, the Algarve is finnaly reconquest by Portugal to the Moors, and in 1255, the capital is shifted to Lisbon.
	www.gurupedia.com /p/po/portugal.htm (4142 words)

	Portugal, hotels, cars, information, tips
		Portugal is a democratic republic located on the southwestern corner of the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe.
		Because Philip II of Spain was the son of a Portuguese princess, Spain invaded Portugal and the Spanish ruler became Philip I of Portugal in 1580.
		In mainland Portugal, average temperatures are 13ºC in the North and 18ºC in the South.
	www.flights-and-hotels.com /portugal (4273 words)

	Timeline \| Lisbon Guide
		Establishment of the 1st County of Portugal, by count Vímara Peres, after the reconquest from the Moors of the region North of the Douro River.
		The monarchy was gradually consolidated in spite of resistance from the Church, the nobles and the rival kingdom of Castile.
		Portugal acquired an empire stretching from Brazil eastward to the Moluccas, reached the zenith of its prosperity and entered upon a period of swift decline.
	www.lisbon-guide.info /portugal/timeline (219 words)

	Nordic Culture > Vikings in Galicia - Scandinavica.com
		Galicia was reputedly the first kingdom of western Europe to be established after the fall of the Roman Empire in AD 409.
		The Kingdom of Galicia was historically a prosperous and strategic land for trading and navigation between the north Atlantic and the Mediterranean sea.
		The Kingdom of Galicia was a major centre of Christian pilgrimage during the Middle Ages as it was believed that the remains of the apostle St James were buried in the city of Sant-Iago de Compostela.
	www.scandinavica.com /culture/history/galicia.htm (1154 words)

	Kingdom of Great Britain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Kingdom of Great Britain, also known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain, was a state located in Western Europe, from 1707 to 1800.
		It was created by the merging of the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England under the Acts of Union 1707 to create a single kingdom encompassing the whole of the island of Great Britain.
		The Kingdom of Great Britain was superseded by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801 when the Kingdom of Ireland was absorbed with the enactment of the Act of Union following the suppression of the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
	en.orangehedgehog.com /content/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain (426 words)

	earthcountries.com - History of Portugal
		Portugal gained its first de jure independence (as Kingdom of Galicia and Portugal) in 1065 under the rule of Garcia II.
		Portugal traces its national origin to 24 June 1128 with the Battle of São Mamede.
		Because Philip II of Spain was the son of a Portuguese princess, Spain invaded Portugal and the Spanish ruler became Philip I of Portugal in 1580; the Spanish and Portuguese Empires were under a single rule.
	www.earthcountries.com /Europe/Portugal/History-of-Portugal-3.html (1651 words)

	Galicia Information Guide Directory
		, is an Autonomous Community within the Kingdom of Spain, located in the northwest of the Spanish Peninsula, it is formed by four provinces and the following Islands: Cies, Ons, Cortegada, Arosa, las Sisargas, Salvora and Vionta.
		It is bordered on the north by the Cantabric Sea, on the south by Portugal, on the west by the Atlantic Ocean and on the east by the following Spanish autonomous communities: Asturias and Castilla y Leon.
		Galicia is a lovely country with beautiful landscape and green valleys.
	www.spain-2.com /galicia (128 words)

	More Portugal
		In the middle ages in northern Portugal there was a tripoint between the medieval kingdoms of Galiza (Galicia), León and Portugal.
		Nowadays, in the same (tri)point there is the Spanish Autonomous Region of Galicia at west, the Spanish Autonomous Region of Castilla-León at east, and the Portuguese Republic at south.
		França is a village in Northern Portugal, in the district of Bragança, former province of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro.
	geosite.jankrogh.com /borders/portugal_other.htm (293 words)

	Galicia (Spain)
		The historical flag of Galicia was white with the chalice and red crosses.
		In the 19th century a distinctive flag was asigned to the maritime province of A Coruña (English Corunna) that was a blue saltire on a white field.
		This is the "state" flag of Galicia, consisting of the "civil" flag (argent, a bend azure) charged with the regional coat of arms.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/es-ga.html (883 words)

	Galicia travel guide
		Galicia looks out over the Atlantic Ocean and the Bay of Biscay with over two thousand years of history behind it.
		Galicia is also the land of a thousand rivers.
		The river channels are as varied as the landscape: from the remarkable Sil Canyons (whose river is the Miño's main tributary, and which can be comfortably travelled by catamaran) and the Ribeira Sacra, an area of uneven contours, ideal for vine growing.
	www.world66.com /europe/spain/galicia (494 words)

	Chapter 4: The Kingdom of León under King Alfonso VI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He was a native of Galicia educated at the see of Santiago and advanced by Fernando to León on the advice of Bishop Cresconio of the former diocese.
		That the affairs of the kingdom of Galicia-Portugal were a matter of discussion is certain [58] from the inclusion of the bishop of Mondoñedo among the signatories as well.
		I expect that the ambiance that would have proved fertile for and disposed to the patronage of such efforts, is to be sought rather in the period of the division of the kingdoms of León and Castilla after the death of Alfonso VII in 1157.
	libro.uca.edu /alfonso6/alfonso4.htm (6525 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Neolithic brought changes to the human landscape of Iberia (from the 5th millennium BC onwards), with the development of agriculture and the beginning of the European Megalith Culture.
		With time, the name Hispania was used to describe the collective names of the Iberian Peninsula kingdoms of the Middle Ages, which came to designate all of the Iberian Peninsula plus the Balearic Islands.
		By the last years of the 12th century the whole Iberian Peninsula, was referred to as the Muslim Granada, and the Christians Kingdom of León and Castile, Kingdom of Navarre, Kingdom of Portugal and Crown of Aragon (including the County of Barcelona).
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Hispania (2852 words)

	Iberia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Asturias is the oldest of the Christian Kingdoms, the region from whence resistence to the Arabs first erupted.
		Tariq, a Berber, was dispatched by the Muslim governor of Morocco, Musa ibn Nusayr, to probe the defenses and determine the plausibility of an invasion of Iberia.
		A native Iberian city and Kingdom, once controlling much of southern Spain, The location of the city is not known exactly; the best estimates place it in or near the La Marismas wetlands, close to the modern estuary of the Guadalquivir River, by the southern coast of Iberia and facing the Atlantic.
	www.hostkingdom.net /iberia.html (1430 words)

	Galicia and Portugal present in Cork - Indymedia Ireland
		Indeed, Galicia and Portugal are not strangers to each other, quite the opposite, one could not be understood without the other.
		Galicia and Portugal presented a joint proposal to UNESCO asking for the recognition of their common “Intangible Heritage”.
		The relations between Galicia and Portugal are not just something of the past, a relic to be studied.
	www.indymedia.ie /article/74937 (771 words)

	Kingdom of Portugal
		Portucale (Portugal) was an autonomous county of the Kingdom of Leon.
		Thus Henry became Count of Portugal which at the time was a fiefdom of the Kingdom of Leon.
		In October 5, 1143 Portugal was officially recognized as a country, and the first king of Portugal was Dom Afonso Henriques (Afonso I).
	www.portugal.com /history/thekingdom/kingdom.asp (429 words)

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	Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa), or Portugal, is a democratic republic located on the west and southwest parts of the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe; it is the westernmost country in continental Europe.
		Viriathus, said to be born in Lorica (Loriga) in the mountains of the center of Portugal, drove the Roman forces out of all of Portugal.
		During the second semester of 2004, a coalition between the PSD (main party) and PP governed Portugal in the 16th constitutional government, led by Pedro Santana Lopes, substituting José Manuel Durão Barroso.
	www.info-pedia.net /about/portugal (4668 words)

	Portugal History
		Only the kingdom of the Suevi (Quadi and Marcomanni) would endure after the arrival of another wave of Germanic invaders, the Visigoths, who conquered all of the Iberian Peninsula and expelled or partially integrated the Vandals and the Alans.
		The Visigoths eventually conquered the Suevi kingdom and its capital city Bracara in 584–585.
		1279–1383 The monarchy was gradually consolidated in spite of resistance from the Church, the nobles and the rival kingdom of Castile.
	www.algarvecarbooking.com /EN/portugal_history.html (7371 words)

	The Kingdom of León-Castilla under King Alfonso VI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The sons upon whom the three new kingdoms were to devolve had all attained maturity, as that was gauged in the eleventh century.
		In the valleys of the Duero and the Miño, he had already asserted the claims of his wife Sancha to the properties of the old comital house for she was a granddaughter of Menendo González.
		In retrospect, one might be tempted to conclude that the kingdom of Galicia-Portugal had come to the end inevitable for it; that it represented a little more in its beginnings than the emotional and traditional impulses of a monarch too much the captive of his family and his dynasty despite his great personal achievements.
	libro.uca.edu /alfonso6/alfonso2.htm (8827 words)

	United Kingdom - Europe Movers UK. Moving companies United Kingdom. Free quotes by movers.
		The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (usually shortened to the United Kingdom or the UK) is a country off the north-western coast of continental Europe, surrounded by the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea, the Irish Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean.
		At the April 2001 census, the United Kingdom's population was 58,789,194 -- the third-largest in the European Union (behind Germany and metropolitan France) and the 21st-largest in the world.
		The United Kingdom's high literacy rate (99%) is attributable to universal public education introduced for the primary level in 1870 and secondary level in 1900 (except in Scotland where it was introduced in 1696).
	www.europemovers.com /United-Kingdom.html (444 words)

	History of Portugal Summary
		History of Portugal series Prehistoric Portugal Pre-Roman Portugal Roman Lusitania and Gallaecia Visigoths and Suevi Moorish rule and Reconquista Castilian and Leonese rule First County of Portugal County of Coimbra Kingdom of Galicia and Portugal Second...
		This essay is an answer to three questions whcih prevail in the mind of many of those who have studied the Portuguese Revolution.
		This essay describes the role the Portuguese played in the age of Discovery and how the events of this time period led Portugal to become a European power.
	www.bookrags.com /History_of_Portugal (145 words)

	Graffiti Wall: North Portugal and Galicia tips?
		Northern Portugal is seldom included in travel guidebooks, and I think this must be the reason that it is so unspoiled and tourist-free.
		A few other suggestions for Portugal: I consider Viseu (north central part of the country) to be the jewel of Portugal.
		In Portugal Vianna do Castelo and the area inland from it by the Lima and the Vez is excellent and I hsould love to get into the National Park.
	www.ricksteves.com /graffiti/graffiti13.html (8153 words)

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