Afonso V of Portugal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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King of Portugal and the Algarves
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Place of Birth: Sintra, Lisbon District, Portugal
About Afonso V of Portugal
- Afonso V (Portuguese pronunciation: [?'fõsu]) (15 January 1432 – 28 August 1481), known by the sobriquet the African (Portuguese: o Africano), was King of Portugal.
- His sobriquet refers to his conquests in Northern Africa. As of 1471, Afonso V was the first king of Portugal to claim dominion over a plural "Kingdom of the Algarves", instead of the singular "Kingdom of the Algarve".
- Territories added to the Portuguese crown lands in North Africa during the 15th century came to be referred to as possessions of the Kingdom of the Algarve (now a region of southern Portugal), not the Kingdom of Portugal.
- The "Algarves" then were considered to be the southern Portuguese territories on both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar.
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