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THE

HISTORY

OF

PORTUGAL

AND

SPAIN.

BY WILLIAM MAVOR, LL.D.

VICAR OF HURLEY IN BERKSHIRE, CHAPLAIN TO THE EARL OF DUMFRIES,

AUTHOR OF THE BRITISH NEPOS, &c. &c.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR RICHARD PHILLIPS, 71, ST. PAUL'S

CHURCH-YARD;

AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS.

1803.

Price 5s. in Boards, or 5s. 6d. half-bound.

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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE

EARL OF WARWICK,

&c. &c. &c..

THIS VOLUME

OF

MODERN UNIVERSAL HISTORY

IS,

WITH EVERY SENTIMENT OF CONSIDERATION AND ESTEEM,

INSCRIBED,

BY

HIS LORDSHIP'S

MOST FAITHFUL

AND DEVOTED HUMBLE SERVANT,

THE EDITOR

MODERN HISTORY.

HISTORY OF PORTUGAL.

CHAP. I.

General Description of Portugal, and its History under its Counts.

THIS

HIS is the most westerly kingdom of Eu-. rope, being bounded on the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean, and on the east and north' by Spain. Its extreme length is about three hundred miles, and its greatest breadth one hundred and fifty.

Lusitania is the Latin name constantly appropriated to this country by modern writers; yet it is evident that the limits of the ancient Lusitania by no means corresponded with the present Portugal, of whose etymology various origins are given: one, which at least possesses the semblance of probability, is, that a number of Gauls having landed at Porto, it received the appellation of Portus Gallorum, and in process of time, the name being softened, was gradually extended to the whole country; but when this event happened, or what occasioned the migration of the Gauls, are particulars buried in oblivion. Another etymology which has more certain foundations in history, is as follows: on an emiVOL. XV. B

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