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The area that is now [[Portugal]] was ruled successively by the Celts, Romans, Goths, and Arabs until the independent [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_of_Portugal County of Portugal] was established in 1096 during the Reconquista. [[Spain]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Zamora recognized Portugal's sovereignty in 1143] and the [[Catholic Church|Church]] in 1179. Portugal, under the Burgundy dynasty, conquered the Algarve in 1249, establishing the final form of its continental European territory.
The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Windsor_(1386) Treaty of Windsor] in 1386 formed a strong alliance with [[United Kingdom|England]]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_I_of_Portugal King John I] established the Portuguese empire in 1415 with the invasion of [[Morocco]] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_conquest_of_Ceuta capture of Ceuta]. In the 15th century, the Portuguese reached India, [[Cape Republic|the Cape]], [[Kongo]], western Africa, and eventually the Americas. After the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tordesillas Treaty of Tordesillas] in 1494, explorer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_%C3%81lvares_Cabral Pedro Cabral] arrived in
==Gilded Century (1656-1754)==▼
== The Iberian Union (1580-1640) ==
The Iberian Union was the name given to the dynastic union of the crowns of Aragon, Castille and Portugal for sixty years, bringing together the Iberian Peninsula and the vast Spanish and Portuguese empire under the next three Spanish Habsburg monarchs: Philip II, Phillip III and Phillip IV.
Started by a succession crisis between the grandchildren of king Manuel I, due the death of the young king D. Sebastian in 1578 and shortly after the death of his successor, Cardinal Henry due to old age in 1580, the throne of Portugal was taken by Phillip II after his successful campaign in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alc%C3%A2ntara_(1580) Battle of Alcântara].
The Iberian Union saw its end after the restoration of the Portuguese Crown under John IV, former 8th Duke of Braganza, in 1640. In the late stages of the Iberian Union, the Portuguese noble support to the Spanish king was reaching its lowest point. High taxation, the economic burden of Spanish wars across Europe and the mostly Spanish occupied public offices, drove them, along with the wealthy class of merchants from Portugal, to rise in a rebellion which began a conflict that would last for the next almost 30 years, as peace with Spain was reached only in 1668.
From 1645 to 1654, a joint force of Pernambucan colonists and Portuguese troops retook Recife, the last bastion of Dutch occupation in Brasil. In 1661, peace between the [[Netherlands]] and Portugal was finally established as the Dutch ownership of Ceylon, Cochin and Malabar was recognized.
In the next 86 years of peace, Portugal saw its empire lose prestige and relevance on the world stage to other European nations.
== Three Tragedies period (1755-1834) ==
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