County of Portugal

County of Portugal Comtato de Portugalle (Old Galician) Comitatus Portugalliæ (Latin)
868–1071 1096–1139
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Second County of Portugal
Status	County within the Kingdoms of Asturias, Galicia, and León
Capital	Guimarães (868–1131) Coimbra (1131–1139)
Common languages	Old Portuguese Mozarabic Andalusian Arabic
Religion	Chalcedonian Christianity (official, until 1054) Roman Catholicism (from 1054, official) Islam Judaism
Demonym(s)	Portuguese
Government	Feudal monarchy
Count of Portucale
• 868–873	Vímara Peres (first of the first county, from the House of Vímara)
• 1050–1071	Nuno II Mendes (last of the first county, from the House of Vímara; Annexation to the Kingdom of Galicia)
• 1096–1112	Henry (first of second county, from the house of Burgundy)
• 1112–1139	Afonso Henriques (last of the second county)
History
• Established	868
• Battle of Ourique	1139
Preceded by Succeeded by Kingdom of Asturias Kingdom of Galicia Kingdom of León County of Coimbra Kingdom of Portugal Portugal in the Middle Ages
Today part of	Portugal Spain

The County of Portugal (Galician-Portuguese: Comtato de Portugalle; in documents of the period Portugalia^[1]) refers to two successive medieval counties in the region around Guimarães 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 the Kingdom of Galicia and also part of the Kingdom of 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.