County of Portugal

Also known as Portugalia

county in Southwestern Europe between 868–1139, predecessor of the Kingdom of Portugal

Key facts

Status: County within the Kingdoms of Asturias , Galicia , and León
Capital: Guimarães (868–1131), Coimbra (1131–1139)
Common languages: Galician–Portuguese Mozarabic Andalusian Arabic
Religion: Chalcedonian Christianity (official, until 1054) Latin Catholicism (from 1054 , official) Islam Judaism
Demonym: Portuguese
Government: Feudal monarchy
868 873: Vímara Peres (first of the first county, from the House of Vímara)
1050 1071: Nuno II Mendes (last of the first county, from the House of Vímara; Annexation to the Kingdom of Galicia )
1096 1112: Henry (first of second county, from the house of Burgundy)
1112 1139: Afonso Henriques (last of the second county)

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Today part ofPortugal Spain

The County of Portugal (Galician-Portuguese: Condado de Portugal; referred to as Portugalia in contemporary documents) refers to two successive medieval counties in the region around Guimarães and Porto, today corresponding to litoral 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 a 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.