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The Cortes assembled at Leiria in 1254 by Afonso III of Portugal was the first known Portuguese Cortes to explicitly include representatives of the municipalities. In this, Portugal was accompanying the pattern in neighboring Iberian kingdoms (e.g. the Kings of León admitted town representatives to their Cortes in 1188 [1]).
From 1361 onwards, the town of Lagos was separated from the jurisdiction of Silves, reaching administrative independence. In the context of the Portuguese discoveries, Lagos played an important role. Nearby Sagres was one of the support bases for the conquest of North Africa and the operations of Henry the Navigator (1394–1460), in the first ...
Portugal and the Iberian Peninsula in 1157. Afonso had already won many victories over the Moors. At the beginning of his reign the religious fervor which had sustained the Almoravid dynasty was rapidly subsiding; in Portugal independent Moorish chiefs ruled over cities and petty taifa states, ignoring the central government; in Africa the Almohades were destroying the remnants of the ...
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives is a 2004 television documentary series produced for the BBC. Written and hosted by Terry Jones, each half-hour episode examines a particular medieval personality, with the intent of separating myth from reality. The episode The Peasant was nominated for Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming at the 2004 Emmy ...
A maquette of the medieval town of Porto, with its earlier, "Suevan"/Sé walls - the Fernandina Walls covered a significantly larger area and reached the riverfront The gate Postigo do Carvão dating to 1348 The rectangular watchtowers and visible fortifications A staircase alongside segment of the fortifications
As the home of the dukes who declared independence in the 12th century, Guimarães is an important town in the history of Portugal. It served as the first capital of the country. The development of the medieval town took place around the castle and the monastic complex. Between the late 15th and 17th centuries, noble houses and civic buildings ...
People of medieval Portugal (16 C) R. Reconquista (7 C, 58 P) S. Kingdom of the Suebi (1 C, 10 P) T. Taifas in Portugal (1 C, 9 P) V. Visigothic Kingdom (8 C, 17 P)
Portugal is a country of wine lovers and winemakers, known since the Roman Empire-era; the Romans immediately associated Portugal with its God of Wine Bacchus. Today, many Portuguese wines are known as some of the world's best: Vinho do Douro , Vinho do Alentejo , Vinho do Dão , Vinho Verde , Rosé and the sweet: Port wine (Vinho do Porto ...