County in Southwestern Europe (868–1071 and 1096–1139)
The County of Portugal refers to two successive medieval counties in the region around Guimarães and Porto, today corresponding to littoral northern Portugal, within which the identity of the Portuguese people formed. The first county existed from the mid-ninth to the mid-eleventh centuries as a vassalage of the Kingdom of Asturias and the Kingdom of Galicia and also part of the Kingdom of León, before being abolished as a result of rebellion. A larger entity under the same name was then reestablished in the late 11th century and subsequently elevated by its count in the mid-12th century into an independent Kingdom of Portugal.
often applied to the Portuguese Empire, the realm's overseas colonies. The nucleus of the Portuguese state was the CountyofPortugal, established in the
several centuries. Modern Portugal began taking shape during this period, initially as a countyof the Christian Kingdom of León in 868, officially declared
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The Kingdom of Galicia (Galician: Reino de Galicia, or Galiza; Spanish: Reino de Galicia; Portuguese: Reino da Galiza; Latin: Galliciense Regnum) was a
