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History&#;s Heroes &#; King Afonso I of Portugal
There are many remarkable people in the history of Portugal, but Afonso Henriques, aka Afonso I of Portugal – The Conqueror, was the one who started it all over nine hundred years ago in the early 12th century.
WORDS Luis de Teves Costa
The Iberian Peninsula was, back then, a volatile and extremely disputed region.
The north housed the Hispanic kingdoms of Aragon, Leon, Castile and Navarre.
Afonso henriques biography of martin
The south was Arab territory and home to the Islamic kingdoms of Al-Gharb Al Andalus (names that were eventually given to the Portuguese region of Algarve and the Spanish region of Andalusia).
For most of the time, the northern Christian kingdoms were either fighting themselves, often involving family quarrels, or joining forces in an attempt to expel the Moors from lost southern territories.
The Arabs invaded the Iberian Peninsula in AD, and it did not take them long to conquer most of its territory. The Iberian Islamic kingdoms