Classes On Portugal / Lisang na Portugal

 Although not much architecture or art survived from the Germanic period, some Christian temples which are pre-Romanesque (11th to 12th/13th centuries) in style are either of clear Visigothic roots or from the "neogothical" Reconquest era, like the Chapel of  São Pedro de Balsemão , Chapel of   São Frutuoso ,  Cathedral of Old-Idanha/ Idanha-a-Velha , Church of  S anto Amaro  (Santiago Maior, Beja),  Head Church of Lourosa (Oliveira do Hospital, Coimbra district),  São Gião  Church (near Nazaré), the "Old Fencing"/" Cerca Velha " (Romana to Arabic) of the Ehvora [city] Walls  and the  Necropolis from Carrasqueira (São Bartolomeu de Messines, Silves). inner depths of the  São Gião  church In the First Part of the chapbook novel  Historia do Imperador Carlos Magno e dos Doze Pares de França -- traduzida do Castelhano em Portuguez com mais elegancia para a nossa lingua por Jeronymo Moreira de Carvalho -- Medico do partid...

  Languages often are members of a specific family of languages with a common root (which is the "superstratum"), and it may absorb significant ("strata") or minor ("substrata")  influences  from a language not from its main root,  through the historical evolution of the language and the territory it is in. The Germani left a Germanic substratum within the (Indo-European) Romance/Neo-Latin superstratum of the Portuguese language, which are sometimes clearly Germanic but not clear if they originate in the Gothic, Suebi (less common due to them adapting quickly to the Latin of the people whose lands they occupied) or another specific language. Given that even after Visigothic conquest, Gallaecia was hardly settled by Visigoths until the post-Christian Reconquest settlements from the 8th century onwards, most of the Germanic words who do not have a Reconquest origin may be attributed to Suebian (although not often this is clear, since Germanic names kept bein...

Starting in 409 A.D., Hispania (the Roman Iberian Peninsula) was invaded and occupied by peoples linguistically "barbarians" (did not speak Latin or Greek) out of which most (aside the Eastern Iranian Alans from Ossetia) were of Germanic origin. By agreement with the Empire, most Iberian territory was granted to these peoples under agreement of being foederati  (federated with the Empire as allies in exchange to be equal parties to talk with the Romans) in 410: the East-central Elbe river Suebi (which had spreaded southwards into what was named Swabia in Germany in the 1st Century) and the Hasdingi tribe of the East Germanic (originating around what is now eastern Poland, southern Lithuania and western Belarus) Vandals establishing in the Gallaecia north of the Durius, the former of which established a Christian (but from the Arian heresy) kingdom and (after a short while of Attaces rulling a single Alan kingdom in Lusitania between Durius and Tagus and of perhaps current Por...