Portugal, (first) County of

The County of Portugal refers to two successive medieval counties in the region around Braga and Porto, today corresponding to littoral northern Portugal, within which the identity of the Portuguese people formed.

The first county exists from the mid-ninth to the mid-eleventh centuries as a vassalage of the Kingdom of Asturias and later the Kingdoms of Galicia and León, before being abolished as a result of rebellion.

A larger entity under the same name is then reestablished in the late 11th century and lasts until the mid-12th century, when its count elevates it into an independent Portuguese kingdom.

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