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VĂ­mara Peres



Vímara Peres, Count of Portugal (Galicia, circa 820 — Guimarães, 873) from Vimara (Weimar or Guimar) and Peres (son of Peter) was a Christian warlord of the 9th century in west Iberia. He was a vassal of the King of Léon and was sent to conquer and secure from the Moors (Arabs and Berbers who invaded Visigothic Hispania) in the west coastal fringe of Gallaecia, from the Minho River to the Douro River, including the city of Portus Cale, later 'O Porto' (Oporto), from were the name Portugal emerged.



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