This contained the tomb of King Joăo II ... Previously the tombs of King Afonso V and the Infante Afonso, son of Joăo II, stood here, but now Portugal's unknown warrior of World War I rests ...

Portugal was recognised as a separate kingdom by neighbouring Leon, Castile and Aragon in 1143. Afonso Henriques ... At his death, King Pedro I was interred in an equally elaborate tomb placed ...

In 1472, two decades before Columbus sailed for the New World, so great was the demand for African labor in Portugal that the parliament urged King Afonso V to bar the sale of Africans to other ...

The four enormous wool and silk tapestries were commissioned by Portuguese King Afonso V to celebrate his North African campaign. The conquered cities of Asilah and Tangier, located near the ...