Portus Cale was an ancient town and port in present-day northern Portugal, in the area of today's Porto and Vila Nova de Gaia. The name of the town eventually...
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Cale, renaming it Portus Cale ('Port of Cale') and incorporating it into the province of Gallaecia. During the Middle Ages, the region around Portus Cale...
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Martin County, Indiana, United States Portus Cale, an ancient town and port in northern Portugal The River Cale, which runs through Wincanton in Somerset...
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to the Douro River: the settlement of Portus Cale and the area that is known as Vila Nova de Gaia. Portus Cale, later referred to as Portucale, was the...
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Roman ports Portus, at the mouth of the Tiber, Italy Portus Adurni, modern Portchester, England Portus Cale, modern Porto, Portugal Portus Dubris, modern...
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(Portvgalliæ) itself is partly of Celtic origin (see: Name of Portugal and Portus Cale). Prósper (2002) p. 376. Delamarre, Xavier [in French] (2003). Dictionnaire...
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area from the Minho River to the Douro River, including the city of Portus Cale, later Porto and Gaia, from where the name of Portugal emerged. The Kingdom...
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the Second Punic War. In the process they conquered Cale, renaming it Portus Cale ('Port of Cale') and incorporating it in the province of Gaellicia with...
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country's early history, stemming from the Roman name Portus Cale, a Latin name meaning "Port of Cale" (Cale likely is a word of Celtic origin - Cailleach-Bheur...
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Mondobriga Moron Myrtilis Sellium Olisipo Ossonoba Pax Julia Portus Alacer Portus Cale Portus Hannibalis Salacia Scalabis Sirpe Sinus Talabara Talabriga...
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Junius Brutus Callaicus conquered their land and founded the Roman city Portus Cale (today's Porto or Oporto city) in approximately 136 BC based on or close...
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the county of Portugal is traditionally dated from the reconquest of Portus Cale (Porto) by Vímara Peres in 868. He was named a count and given control...
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which was divided internally into several provinces called "counties". Portus Cale was one of these counties which was incorporated in the Kingdom as a...
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early settlement of Cale (today's Gaia), situated on the mouth of the Douro River on the Atlantic coast (Portus Cale). The name Cale seems to come from...
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Portucale can mean: Portus Cale, old Roman name of an ancient town and port in current day Portugal, in the area of today's Grande Porto (north of the...
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retaliation. The County of Portugal is established around the town of Portus Cale (present-day Porto) by Vímara Peres, an Asturian nobleman, after the...
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the aftermath of the Lusitanian wars, as the capital of the Callaici (Portus Cale) was only definitively occupied by Marcus Perpena in 74 BC. Further incursions...
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because until then the Suebi had professed Arianism. He landed possibly in Portus Cale, where he went to Braga, to the court of Theodemar, completing the king's...
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medium-sized oppida have been identified, namely the obscure Portus Calle (also known as Cales or Cale; Castelo de Gaia, near Porto), Avobriga (Castro de Alvarelhos...
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the Iberian Peninsula in a harbor that he named "Portus Gaythelos" (later named by the Romans Portus Cale after the Callaici people), the town later giving...
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stream that was later called Ilhar Mourisco.” After the reconquest of Portus Cale (Porto) by Vímara Peres in 868, he was named a count and given control...
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Ribeira neighbourhood. This northern settlement, known as Portus Cale (the "port" of Cale), grew in prominence over time due to the thriving Douro River...
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interior and marched to the Iberian westcoast where he took the city of Portus Cale. The war was not going well and the Roman nobles and senators that made...
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Pax Augusta, Colonia Civitas Pacensis Beja Portus Alacer Portalegre Portus Cale Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto Portus Hannibalis Portimão Salacia Alcácer do Sal...
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Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Turkish), Portó (Hungarian), Portus Cale (Latin), Portu (Latvian), პორტუ (Georgian), Poruto - ポルト (Japanese)* Porto Torres...
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and Portucale from the Gallaeci tribe (Celtic Gale and Roman-Celtic Portus Cale) and Galician-Portuguese (ethnic term derived from the original language);...
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Iebora → Évora Olisipo → Al-Usbuna → Lisbon (Lisboa) Pax Iulia → Beja Portus Cale → Porto (Oporto) and Vila Nova de Gaia Sheberina → Serpa Sintara → Sintra...
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Romance Portucale, from Latin Portus Cale (modern Porto and Gaia). Portus is the Latin for "port", but the meaning of Cale is debated. Some derive it from...
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interior and marched to the Iberian west coast where he took the city of Portus Cale. After rebuilding the walls of Palentia Sertorius suddenly marched east...
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Alfonso III of Asturias after his successful campaign in the reconquest of Portus Cale (Porto). This began a period of political fragmentation for both territories...
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