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According to several historians quoted by João Paulo Rocha in 1910, the first Phoenicians arrived in the Iberian Peninsula around 935 BC, to search for gold and silver, having returned a few years later with a larger fleet, which reached as far as Cape St. Vincent [12] In the city of Lagos several Phoenician remains have been found, such as ceramics found in Barroca Street, dating from the ...
Lagos Marina 1892 Street in Lagos, c. 1910 Lagos saw protest regarding house and land tax in 1895. Following threats from Kosoko and the French who were positioned at Whydah, a decision was made by Lord Palmerston (British Prime Minister) who noted in 1861, "the expediency of losing no time in assuming the formal Protectorate of Lagos". [34]
Probably a native of Lagos, Portugal, Diogo Gomes began as page in the household of Prince Henry the Navigator and subsequently rose to the rank of cavaleiro by 1440. Diogo Gomes participated in the 1445 slave raid led by Lançarote de Freitas of Lagos on the Arguin banks , and claims to have personally captured 22 Berber slaves single-handedly.
Marina de Lagos, Portugal. Lagos' economy, like many coastal towns in Portugal, has always been closely linked to the sea, and fishing has been an important activity since very ancient times. Since 1960, the city has embraced tourism, which has become its most important economic activity. It has beautiful beaches, good climate, the sea, a ...
A hammer made from reindeer horn similar to those used by the Bromme culture was found in 2016. The discovery pushed back the earliest evidence of human presence in Lithuania by 30,000 years, i.e. to before the last glacial period. [39] Asia, Southeast Asia: East Timor: 42: Jerimalai cave: Fish bones [40] Australia: Tasmania: 41: Jordan River Levee
The history of Portugal can be traced from circa 400,000 years ago, when the region of present-day Portugal was inhabited by Homo heidelbergensis.. The Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, which lasted almost two centuries, led to the establishment of the provinces of Lusitania in the south and Gallaecia in the north of what is now Portugal.
In what is today's mainland Portugal territory, before the rule of the Roman Empire, several peoples and tribes were living there for many centuries and they had their own culture, language and political organization (tribal chiefdoms, tribal confederations and early forms of kingdoms and states), these peoples and tribes were in the Iron Age.
With the reign of King John II (1481–1495), the Company of Guinea was moved from Lagos to new premises in Lisbon (1481–1482). King John II and his successor also carried out conservation work on the defenses of Lagos, who endowed it with an aqueduct for the water supply, built somewhere between 1490 and 1521.