History of Portugal

Portus Penetrate was the name offered by the Romans to ends of the century III to.C., that refers to an old settlement, port that the Greeks had established in the neighborhood of the current one Oporto and in the estuary of the Duero, being this the locality of “Penetrating“, that toward the Middle Ages the region was named by the Visigoths, like “Portucale”, deriving thus to its current name “Portugal”among And VIII, circumscribing thus to the region understood among I Gild and Miño.

The Greek lovers of the beauty, they knew to appreciate the natural wonders of the region of the Valley of I Gild, being established in her, by which the word Penetrate, at the same time would have a Greek root deriving from the word “Kalles” whose meaning would be “Beautiful”, attributing him the Phoenicians the transformation in “Penetrating”, but besides would be able to refer according to other historic theories to the indigenous Gallic towns of the region.

Portugal represented an I suffice empire coming to be power in its epoch understood between the fifteenth century and XVI, beginning its development from the call “Was of the Discoveries”.

But it began to decay losing its overseas fleet after the disaster of Alcacer-Kibir, from which was absorbed by the Spanish Armada, what produced its loss of possessions in this field.

Being added to its misfortune the terrible earthquake suffered in its capital, which almost was destroyed in its totality in 1755, with which this decadence went accentuating, to arrive at the beginnings of the 19th century, should to face Napoleon and carrying it in 1822 to suffer the independence of its greater possession, the colony of Brazil

For 1910 it is transformed into Republic, leaving behind to the monarchy, but this can be maintained until 1926, where is ousted for a coup d’etat that plunges to Portugal in the Dictatorship, which remains until 1974, that after another revolution among soldiers, establishes the Democracy and a year later becomes independent to all its African colonies.