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Europe · High and late Middle Ages

County of Portugal

drawn on the map 1139–1146

Condado Portucalense; Condado de Portugal. A semi-autonomous county of the Kingdom of León around Portucale (Porto)/Coimbra.

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Shown on the map
1139–1146
Peak area
46k km²
Region
Europe

Names

Condado Portucalense; Condado de Portugal. A semi-autonomous county of the Kingdom of León around Portucale (Porto)/Coimbra. Revived when Alfonso VI of León-Castile granted it to Henry of Burgundy and his daughter Teresa (c. 1096). After Henry's death (1112), Teresa ruled and styled herself queen; her son Afonso Henriques defeated her at the Battle of São Mamede (1128) and took control, moving toward independence and the royal title (1139/1143).

Common questions

What was the County of Portugal?
Condado Portucalense; Condado de Portugal. A semi-autonomous county of the Kingdom of León around Portucale (Porto)/Coimbra.
When is the County of Portugal shown on the map?
The border data draws the County of Portugal 1139–1146. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
How large was the County of Portugal?
At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the County of Portugal covered about 46,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.

Sources

This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for al-Andalus, the taifas and the Christian kingdoms as the primary basis, with Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia and academic work on the historiography of the Reconquista and the taifa period (García-Sanjuán). The article this entry is anchored on:

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Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse it with a credit to The World Through Time and a link to this page. Passages drawing on the Wikipedia articles listed above are also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by their contributors.

Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).

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