Algarve across the sea
The Algarve beyond the sea ( Portuguese : Algarve ultramar , later Algarve d'além-mar ) was the name given to the places on the Moroccan coast that were owned by Portugal from the 15th to the 18th century , the banks opposite to the Portuguese titular kingdom of the Algarve were regarded as its continuation.
history
Together with the southern Portuguese region , the North African coastal bases occupied between the Strait of Gibraltar and Cape Bojador formed part of the Kingdom of Portugal as the two Algarves (plural, Portuguese: Algarves ) . With Ceuta the first base was conquered in 1415, followed by Alcazarquivir (1458), Arzila (1471) and Tangier (1471). Most places were given up in the 17th century. Ceuta was the only formerly Portuguese area to remain with Spain after the end of the personal union in 1640. This Spanish enclave in Morocco still bears the Portuguese coat of arms today . With Mazagão ( El Jadida ) the last base was lost in 1769, but the Portuguese monarchy continued to use the title until the 19th century.
See also
literature
- Kurt Simon: Spain and Portugal as maritime and colonial powers , page 53. Verlag R. Hermes 1913
- Christian Weyers: Place name termination , page 230 Buske Verlag Hamburg 2006
Web links
- Map from Spruner-Menke Historical Hand Atlas from 1880, page 8
- Map from Professor G. Droysen's General Historical Handbook from 1886, page 37
- Map from FW Putzger's Historical School Atlas from 1905, page 20
- Map from Edward A. Freeman's Atlas to the Historical Geography of Europe, 1903, page LXV
Individual evidence
- ↑ António Henrique de Oliveira Marques : History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 385). Translated from the Portuguese by Michael von Killisch-Horn. Kröner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-520-38501-5 .