Portugal: On the Edge of the World (TRIH ep 227, part 1)
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This episode inaugurates a multipart history of Portugal. The hosts trace Portugal's long, layered past from ancient times—Carthaginian contacts, Roman conquest and the Lusitania identity—to Visigothic and Moorish rule and the medieval Reconquista.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1147
- Anarchy in England (1135)
- Angkor Wat built (1113)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Genghis Khan (1162)
- Norman invasion of Ireland (1169)
- Saladin retakes Jerusalem (1187)
- Reign of Henry II (1154)
- Capture of Jerusalem by First Crusade (1099)
- Kamakura shogunate (1185)
- Frederick I Barbarossa (1122)