The world: historical and actual . !>*-HNa*€f*^. : LIE distinctive history ofPortugal dates from 1095,with a subsequent period ofmergence in Spain. Priorto that time it was anindistinguishable part ofSpain (using the modernterm for the Iberian Pen-Before that time it hadbeen subject, in turn, to the lto-mans, Visigoths, and Moors. Atthe close of the eleventh centuryAlfonso VI., King of Leon andCastile, wrested from the Moors|^3^; that part of their European posses-sions lying between the Minho andthe Douro, and gave it to his son-in-law, Henry, who called himselfCount of Portugal. The name
The world: historical and actual . !>*-HNa*€f*^. : LIE distinctive history ofPortugal dates from 1095,with a subsequent period ofmergence in Spain. Priorto that time it was anindistinguishable part ofSpain (using the modernterm for the Iberian Pen-Before that time it hadbeen subject, in turn, to the lto-mans, Visigoths, and Moors. Atthe close of the eleventh centuryAlfonso VI., King of Leon andCastile, wrested from the Moors|^3^; that part of their European posses-sions lying between the Minho andthe Douro, and gave it to his son-in-law, Henry, who called himselfCount of Portugal. The name was suggested bythe capital, Porto Cale. Henrys son Alfonso hadthe title of king conferred upon him by the pope, inreward for his gaining a victory over the Moors at thebattle of Ourique, 1139, in consequence of which vic-tory his possessions were extended to the the middle of the following century the king-dom comprised substantially the same territory as itdoes to-day. The area of Portugal is 36,510 square miles, and the pojmlation a tr
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