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In 419 Olissipo was plundered and burnt by the Visigothic king Walia, who founded the Visigothic kingdom in Spain. [71] Remismund conquered Lisbon in 468 with the help of a Hispano-Roman called Lusidius, [72] and finally in 469 it was integrated into the Suevi kingdom whose capital city was Braga.
The Romans founded numerous cities, such as Olisipo (Lisbon), Bracara Augusta (Braga), Aeminium (Coimbra) and Pax Julia (Beja), [42] and left important cultural legacies in what is now Portugal. Vulgar Latin (the basis of the Portuguese language) became the dominant language of the region, and Christianity spread throughout Lusitania from the ...
Lisbon is one of the oldest cities in the world [5] and the second-oldest European capital city (after Athens), predating other modern European capitals by centuries. [6] Settled by pre-Celtic tribes and later founded and civilized by the Phoenicians, Julius Caesar made it a municipium called Felicitas Julia, [7] adding the term to the name ...
1768 – Jardim Botânico da Ajuda (garden) founded near city. [15] 1769 – Lisbon Stock Exchange formed. 1774 – Lisbon City Archives moved into Lisbon City Hall. [16] 1775 – Equestrian statue of José I erected in the Praça do Comércio. [4] 1779 – Lisbon Science Academy founded. [7] 1780 Street lighting installed. [8]
The Habsburgs continued to claim the throne of Portugal until the end of the war in the Treaty of Lisbon (1668). The descendants of Queen Maria II and her consort, King Ferdinand II (a German prince of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha), came to rule in 1853. Portuguese law and custom treated them as members of the House of Braganza, though ...
The eponymous Samson the Fair from another Norse work, Samsons saga fagra, is Arthur's son as well. Rauf de Boun's 1309 Petit Brut lists Arthur's son Adeluf III as a king of Britain, also mentioning Arthur's other children Morgan le Noir (Morgan the Black) and Patrike le Rous (Patrick the Red) by an unnamed Fairy Queen. [35]
Lisbon Regicide: King Carlos I of Portugal and his son and heir, prince Luis Filipe, Duke of Braganza, are killed in the Regicide of Lisbon by Alfredo Luís da Costa and Manuel Buíça, republicans of the Carbonária (the Portuguese section of the Carbonari). Manuel II of Portugal, King Carlos's youngest son, becomes king. 1909
The Roman leaders decided to change their strategy. They bribed Viriathus's ambassador to kill his own leader. In 139 BC, Viriathus was assassinated, and the resistance was soon over. Rome installed a colonial regime. During this period, Lusitania grew in prosperity and many of modern-day Portugal's cities and towns were founded.