County of Portugal

The County of Portugal (Portuguese: Condado de Portugal, Condado Portucalense, Condado de Portucale; in documents of the period the name used was Portugalia) 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 existed 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 was then reestablished in the late 11th century and subsequently elevated by its count in the mid-12th century into an independent Kingdom of Portugal.

County of Portugal Condado Portucalense Condado de Portugal
868–1139
Flag
Second County of Portugal
Status	Vassalage of the Kingdoms of Asturias, Galicia and León
Capital	Guimarães
Common languages	Old Portuguese Mozarabic Andalusian Arabic
Religion	Roman Catholicism Islam Judaism
Government	Feudal monarchy
Count of Portugal
• 868–873	Vímara Peres (first of the first county)
• 1050–1071	Nuno II Mendes (last of the first county; Brief Annexation to the Kingdom of León
• 1096–1112	Henry of Burgundy (first of second county)
• 1112–1139	Afonso Henriques (last of the second county)
History
• Established	868
• Battle of Ourique	1139
ISO 3166 code	PT
Preceded by Succeeded by Emirate of Córdoba Kingdom of Asturias Kingdom of Galicia Kingdom of León Kingdom of Portugal
Today part of	Portugal Galicia