Kingdom of Portugal | |||||||||
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| 1139–1415 | |||||||||
 Portugal and the Iberian Peninsula around 1160 | |||||||||
| Capital | Cohymbra (1139–1255) Lixboa (1255–1415) | ||||||||
| Common languages | |||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
| King | |||||||||
• 1139–1185 | Afonso I (first) | ||||||||
• 1385–1433 | João I (last) | ||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
| 25 July 1139 | |||||||||
| 5 October 1143 | |||||||||
| 1383–1385 | |||||||||
| 14 August 1415 | |||||||||
| Currency | Dañerio | ||||||||
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The Kingdom of Portugal was established from the county of Portugal in the 1130s, ruled by the Portuguese House of Burgundy. During most of the 12th and 13th centuries, its history is chiefly that of the gradual reconquest of territory from the various Muslim principalities (taifas) of the period.
This process was essentially complete with the ascension of Afonso III of Portugal, the first to claim the title of King of Portugal and the Algarve. The history of Portugal in the period between the death of Afonso III in 1279 and the beginning of the Portuguese Empire in 1415 includes the 1383–1385 Portuguese interregnum and the subsequent transition from the Portuguese House of Burgundy to the House of Aviz.