However things hit the fan in 1578 when King Sebastian was killed in a batle without an heir to his throne, the great Empire was all of a suden in a crisis and spain´s King Philip II claimed the throne The discovery of Brazil in the 1500 would prove to be the most vital, with trading post in India, China, South America and Africa, Portugal was an imposing Empire. The Portuguese were now free to explore the waters, and explore they did, setting up colonies of trade all over the world. The new allies signed the treaty of Windsor, which is still in effect today and utilized as recently as the Portugal still had the problem of keeping spain out of their new border, so portugal made an aliance with England and Spain backed out. One leader pushed a litle harder than most and got the moors back south and east and claimed himself the first King of Portugal he was D.Afonso Henriques.Īt the same time the spanish to the east were also pushing to the south and some disputes started to pop-up, subsequent Afonso´s followed and kept the march south going south and in 1249, Afonso III captured Faro, today´s capital city of Algarve. Obviously, like everywhere in Europe it seems, the Romans occupied the area first, but some time after their demise in the 5th century, the moors invaded, they came galavanting in the year 771 and took almost the all peninsula, pockets of Christians in the north remainded and push back the moors over the next few hundred years. People have inhabited this area since the 6th century BC and maybe even more.
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