1143 Event

Independence of Portugal

Name: Independence of Portugal
Start: 1143

The Treaty of Zamora recognises Afonso Henriques as king. Today’s borders begin to take shape.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 1143 — the context national timelines leave out.

20 years later Notre-Dame and the Gothic surge France

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Which long period

Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

High and Late Middle Ages 1000 – 1453 Towns, universities, cathedrals, plague and long wars.

Countries involved

Portugal

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The half-century around 1143
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What was written of it

Owing to the morbid estrangement which the madness of nationality has set between the peoples of Europe, the clearest signs are overlooked: Europe wants to become one.

Friedrich Nietzsche 1886

Beyond Good and Evil

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