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The County of Coimbra (Portuguese: Condado de Coimbra) was a political entity instituted as a military unit of defense in the borders of the Kingdom of Galicia in the Iberian Peninsula, and in what is today central Portugal. It was established in 871. However it was reconquered by the Moors of Al-Mansur in 987, transforming the northern County of Portugal into a defensive border territory. It was made of the lands of Coimbra, Viseu, Lamego and Feira.
The city of Coimbra was definitively secured by the Christians in 1064 (conquered by Ferdinand the Great of León, Galicia and Castile, along with the Mozarab Sesnando Davides) and was eventually incorporated in the territory of the Second County of Portugal when it was restored in 1096. Their mozarab inhabitants continued to live segregated from the peoples of Northern Portugal, during the reign of Afonso I, 1st King of Portugal.
List of counts
1st creation
- 879–? Hermenegildo Mendes
- ?–911 Hermenegildo Guterres
- 911–924 Arias Mendes (son of Hermenegildo Guterres)
- 928–981 Gonçalo Moniz (grandson of Arias Mendes)
2nd creation
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