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Originally Posted by Jim McDougall
Oops! Sorry Fernando, my bad.  |
Never mind, Jim; we are used to such flaw
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As a matter of fact, in the period these helmets were used, neither Portugal nor Spain, in its actual concept, existed.
The Iberin Peninsula was then a countless number of Peoples and regions, which the invading Romans called Hispania (from the Phoenician/
Carthaginian Span or Spania). In the South East you would find the Iberians, a name previously given to the Peninsula by the Greeks and, in the North West you had a pre-Celtic group called Galaecians, which ended up being the Galicia region. From this Galicia, one southern part was donated in the XI century to the Burgundian Count Dom Henrique, for having helped King Afonso VI of Leon and Castille to fight the Moors. From this county called Portucale (from the Latin Portus=Oporto), Dom Henrique's successors managed to expell the Moors down to limits of the Peninsula Western strip by the year 1249, giving a final form to what is the oldest inaltered one nation state of Europe.
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