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Servius Sulpicius Galba, praetor in 151 BCE, receives Spain as his province, where the Romans are waging a two-front war against the Lusitanians and the Celtiberians.

On his arrival, he hastens to the relief of some Roman subjects who are hard pressed by the Lusitanians, who have been fighting the Romans since 193; the Roman Republic is now having difficulty in recruiting soldiers for the wars in Hispania, deemed particularly brutal.

Galba succeeds so far as to put the enemy to flight; but as, with his exhausted and undisciplined army, he is incautious in their pursuit, the Lusitanians turn around, and a fierce contest ensues, in which seven thousand Romans fall.

Galba then collects the remnants of his army and his allies, and takes up his winter-quarters at Conistorgis.

The younger son of Lucius Aemilius Paulus Macedonicus, the conqueror of Macedonia, had fought when he was seventeen years old by his father's side at the Battle of Pydna, which had decided the fate of Macedonia and made northern Greece subject to Rome.

Later adopted by Publius Cornelius Scipio, the eldest son of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, his name was has been changed to Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus.

He therefore is the nephew of Publius Cornelius Scipio's wife, Aemilia Tertia—as Aemilia and Lucius are siblings and their father was Lucius Aemilius Paullus.

Aemilianus further complicates his relationships by marrying Sempronia, granddaughter of the elder Africanus and daughter of censor Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus.

Now a leading general and politician of the Roman Republic and a man of culture and refinement, Aemilianus has gathered round him such men as the Greek historian Polybius, the philosopher Panaetius, and the poets Lucilius and Terence.

In 151, a time of disaster for the Romans in Spain, he voluntarily offers his services in this province and develops an influence over the native tribes similar to that which Scipio Africanus, his grandfather by adoption, had acquired nearly sixty years before.

Accompanied by Polybius, Aemilianus brings valuable aid from his adoptive grandfather's old friend Masinissa, prince of Numidia.

Land in Lusitania is divided among Muslim troops.

However, bad crops and a dislike for the wet climate puts an end to the short-lived Muslim colonization along the Rio Douro.

Musims prefer the dry country below the Tagus River because it is more familiar, especially the Algarve, an area of present-day Portugal where the Muslim imprint remains the strongest.

The Muslim aristocracy settles in towns and revives urban life; others fan out across the countryside as small farmers.

The Visigothic peasants readily convert to Islam, having only been superficially Christianized.

Some Visigothic nobles continue to practice Christianity, but most convert to Islam and are confirmed by the Muslims as local governors.

Jews, who are always an important element in the urban population, continue to exercise a significant role in commerce and scholarship.

Hazim ibn Wahb leads a rebellion in the Gharb al-Andalus (present day Portugal), against the Emir of Córdoba.

Al-Hakam defeats Hazim ibn Wahb in 809, regaining control in the west.

It will be temporary.

…the lords of Ocsónoba, Yahya ibn Bakr, and …

The conquest of the southernmost province of Algarve in 1249 by Afonso III ends the Portuguese reconquest from the Moors but provokes a quarrel with Alfonso X of León and Castile, which is eventually settled by a marriage alliance.

King Afonso III of Portugal, now secure on the throne, proceed to make war with the Muslim communities that still thrive in the south.

The Algarve becomes part of the kingdom in his reign, following the capture of Faro, the last Moorish community in Portugal.

A Portuguese Water Dog, a breed native to the Algarve, is first described in 1297 in a monk’s account of a drowning sailor who was pulled from the sea by a dog with a "black coat, the hair long and rough, cut to the first rib and with a tail tuft".

The Poodle and the Portuguese Water Dog may have developed from the same ancient genetic pool.

At one time the Poodle was a longer-coated dog, as is one variety of the Portuguese Water Dog.

The possibility also exists that some of the long-coated water dogs grew up with the ancient Iberians.

In early times, Celtiberians migrated from lands which now belong to southwestern Germany.

Swarming over the Pyrenees, circulating over the whole of western Europe, they established bases in Iberia, as well as in Ireland, Wales, and Brittany.

The Irish Water Spaniel and Kerry Blue Terrier are believed by some to be descendants of the Portuguese Water Dog.

…to the Algarve.

The majority of refugees from the Spanish expulsion head for Portugal and …