In honor of which king is the capital of Portugal named?
Written sources indicate that before the arrival of Romans in the middle of the 2nd century BC, BC. e. Here was the settlement of Lusitan Olisipo, renamed by the Romans at Felicitas Julia
The city became the residence of the Roman governor, soon the customs of the conquerors established themselves throughout the Iberian peninsula, and the traditions and languages that existed before disappeared. The conquest of the Roman Empire by barbarians and their resettlement across Europe and the Iberian Peninsula contributed to the fact that at the turn of the 6th-7th centuries BC, Olisippo was under the authority of the Visigoths. In 714 the city passed under the patronage of the Arab caliphs and was renamed Al-Oshbuni or Lishbuna
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