The original Galician-Portuguese language was developed in the Galician / Northern Portuguese area, taken down south as the Portuguese Kingdom expanded, namely after Afonso Henriques era.

The Galician language, spoken in the region of Galicia, Spain, is considered by some of its speakers as a dialect of the Portuguese-or, precisely speaking, Galician-Portuguese ( Galego-Português ) language, while others believe it to be a different, if closely related, language.

Old Portuguese, also known as Galician-Portuguese, began to diverge from other Romance languages after the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the barbarian invasions in the 5th century and started appearing in written documents around the 9th century.

Real, legendary, and fictional episodes from the Reconquista are the subject of much of medieval Galician-Portuguese literature, Spanish literature, and Catalan literature, such as the cantar de gesta.

As for Compostela, it comes, according to legend, from the Latin Campus Stellae ( i. e. " Field of the Star "); it seems unlikely however that this could yield the modern Compostela under normal evolution from Latin to Galician-Portuguese.

The subject of " courtly love " became important in the 11th century, especially in the Romance languages ( in the French, Spanish, Galician-Portuguese, Catalan, Provençal languages, most notably ) and Greek, where the traveling singers — troubadours — made a living from their songs.

* Development of Old Spanish, Galician-Portuguese, Astur-Leonese, Navarro-Aragonese ( West Iberian ) and early Catalan language from Latin between the eighth and tenth centuries.

It shares origins with Portuguese, from the medieval Galician-Portuguese language.

They wrote mostly from Galician-Portuguese and oral traditions known as " Cantigas de amor e amigo " and " Cantigas de escárnio e maldizer ", which were sung by Troubadours the first ones and the last ones by jograis.

Another document from 882 also containing some Galician-Portuguese words is the Carta de dotação e fundação da Igreja de S. Miguel de Lardosa.

As a result of political division, Galician-Portuguese lost its unity when the County of Portugal separated from the Kingdom of Galicia ( a dependent kingdom of Leon ) to establish the Kingdom of Portugal.

:: During this movement, language use went from Galician-Portuguese to Castilian.

The Portuguese language began its independent evolution from the medieval Galician-Portuguese when the County of Portugal separated from the Kingdom of Galicia by becoming the Kingdom of Portugal.

She was much influenced by surrealism, Galician-Portuguese poetry, and mysticism, and her works span the spectrum from poetic romanticism to satire.

Gallaecian and Lusitanian influences were absorbed into the local Vulgar Latin dialect, and this can be detected in some Galician-Portuguese words as well as in place-names of Celtic and Iberian origin ( e. g. Bolso ).

The first known phonetic changes in Vulgar Latin which began the evolution to Galician-Portuguese took place during the rule of the Germanic groups, the Suevi ( 411 – 585 ) and Visigoths ( 585 – 711 ).

In the north-western part of the Peninsula ( today's Northern Portugal and Galicia ), Vulgar Latin began gaining a growing number of local characteristics, leading to the formation of what linguists today call Galician-Portuguese.

The oldest known document to contain Galician-Portuguese words, found in northern Portugal, called the Doação à Igreja de Sozello and dated to 870, but is otherwise composed in Late Latin.

But despite the enthusiasm of some scholars, it has been shown that these documents are not really written in Galician-Portuguese but are in fact a mixture of Late Latin and Galician-Portuguese phonology, morphology and syntax.

" Galician-Portuguese " and português arcaico (" Old Portuguese "), are modern terms for the common ancestor of modern Portuguese and modern Galician.

These poems were composed in a language called Galician-Portuguese ( or Galego-Portuguese ), the common ancestor of modern Galician and Portuguese.

An early form of Galician-Portuguese was already spoken in the Suebic Kingdom of Galicia and by the year 800 Galician-Portuguese had already become the vernacular of the north-west of Iberia.

Galician-Portuguese had a special cultural role in the literature of the Christian kingdoms of medieval Iberia, comparable to that of Occitan in France and Italy during the same historical period.

By the 13th century Galician-Portuguese had become a mature language with its own literature and began to split into two languages.

The term " Galician-Portuguese " also designates the subdivision of the modern West Iberian group which is composed by Galician, Portuguese, and the Fala language.

The Notícia de fiadores, written in 1175, is thought by some to be the oldest known document written in Galician-Portuguese.

The Germanic languages influenced Galician-Portuguese by introducing words mainly linked to the military, such as guerra (" war ") or laverca ( lark ).

The Cantigas de Santa Maria (" Canticles of Holy Mary ";, ) are 420 poems with musical notation, written in Galician-Portuguese during the reign of Alfonso X El Sabio ( 1221 – 1284 ) and often attributed to him.

The Cantigas are written in Galician-Portuguese, the lyrical language of Castile at the time.

While the other major works that came out of Alfonso's workshops, including histories and other prose texts, were in Castilian, the Cantigas are in Galician-Portuguese, and reflect the popularity in the Castilian court of other poetic corpuses such as the cantigas d ' amigo and cantigas d ' amor.

These works included Cantigas d ' escarnio e maldicer and the vast compilation Cantigas de Santa Maria (" Songs to the Virgin Mary "), which was written in Galician-Portuguese and figures among the most important of his works.

In the medieval Galician-Portuguese cantigas de amigo, thought to reflect an old oral tradition, 90 % of the texts have a refrain.

There is also a large body of medieval Galician-Portuguese lyric.

Amadis de Gaula ( original Old Spanish and Galician-Portuguese spelling ) (, ;, ; " Amadis of Gaul ") is a landmark work among the knight-errantry tales which were in vogue in 16th century Iberian Peninsula, and formed the earliest reading of many Renaissance and Baroque writers, although it was written at the onset of the 14th century.

Joanna mastered all of the Iberian Romance languages: Castilian, Leonese, Galician-Portuguese and Catalan.

In the Middle Ages, Galego-português ( Galician-Portuguese ) was a language of culture, poetry ( troubadours ) and religion throughout not only Galicia and Portugal but also Castile.

Theresa of Portugal ( Portuguese: Teresa ; Galician-Portuguese: Tareja ) ( 1080 – 11 November 1130 ) was the Countess of Portugal.

Galician-Portuguese (, ), also known as Medieval Galician or Old Portuguese, was a West Iberian Romance language spoken in the Middle Ages, in the northwest area of the Iberian Peninsula.

Map showing the historical retreat and expansion of Galician ( Galician-Portuguese ) within the context of its linguistic neighbours between the year 1000 and 2000.

Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais founded Luanda in 1575 as " São Paulo de Loanda ", and the region developed as a slave trade market with the help of local Imbangala and Mbundu peoples who were notable slave hunters.

Similar instruments include the xalam of Senegal and the ngoni of the Wassoulou region including parts of Mali, Guinea, and Côte d ' Ivoire as well as a larger variation of the ngoni developed in Morocco by sub-Saharan Africans known as the Gimbri.

Although the Iron Age generally followed the Bronze Age, in some areas, the Iron Age intruded directly on the Neolithic from outside the region except for Sub-Saharan Africa where it was developed independently.

In 1876, Adolphus Busch and his friend Carl Conrad, a liquor importer, developed a " Bohemian-style " lager, inspired after a trip to the region.

This ensures that differing economic structures developed in each region of Canada, contributing to Canada's strong regionalism.

The facial region of skull is relatively small, with pinnae very small or lacking, and the vibrissae are well developed.

The second noteworthy characteristic is that the country borders on very different parts of the African continent: North Africa, with its Islamic culture and economic orientation toward the Mediterranean Basin ; West Africa, with its diverse religions and cultures and its history of highly developed states and regional economies ; Northeast Africa, oriented toward the Nile Valley and Red Sea region ; and Central or Equatorial Africa, some of whose people have retained classical African religions while others have adopted Christianity, and whose economies were part of the great Congo River system.

In the first millennium AD, an urban tradition developed in the Khmer region of Cambodia, where Angkor grew into one of the largest cities ( in area ) of the world.

The Spaniards also developed the first roads, rudimentary and most of these in the Caribbean region.

The Greek Doric, developed in the western Dorian region of Greece, is the heaviest and most massive of the orders.

The Cemetery H culture developed out of the northern part of the Indus Valley Civilization around 1700 BCE, in and around western Punjab region located in present-day India and Pakistan.

Thus was born a new type of beef cattle for Central Brazil, with the name CANCHIM, derived from the name of a tree very common in the region where the breed was developed.

However, once occupied by the Quito hosts of Huayna Capac ( 1593 – 1595 ), the Incas developed an extensive administration and began the colonization of the region.

During the Formative Period, people of the region moved from the hunter-gather a simple farming into a more developed society, with permanent developments, an increase in agriculture and the use of ceramics.

The La Tolita developed in the coastal region of Southern Colombia and Northern Ecuador between 600 bc and 200 AD.

In the mountains Cosangua-Píllaro, the Capulí and Piartal-Tuza cultures arose, in the eastern region was the Yasuní Phase while the Milagro, Manteña and Huancavilca cultures developed on the coast.

In the case of the San Andreas fault continental transform, many earthquakes occur away from the plate boundary and are related to strains developed within the broader zone of deformation caused by major irregularities in the fault trace ( e. g., the " Big bend " region ).

At the end of the 19th century Galveston was, with New Orleans, one of the most developed cities in the region.

In the northern Syrian, eastern Anatolian region of the Levant, Natufian culture at Cayonu and Mureybet developed the first fully agricultural culture with the addition of wild grains, later being supplemented with domesticated sheep and goats, which were probably domesticated first by the Zarzian culture of Northern Iraq and Iran ( which like the Natufian culture may have also developed from Kebaran ).

The German region developed out of the East Frankish kingdom, East Francia.

An upper limit of 750 BC is indicated by a number of considerations, such as the probability that his work was written down, the fact that he mentions a sanctuary at Delphi that was of little national significance before c. 750 BC ( Theogony l. 499 ), and he lists rivers that flow into the Euxine, a region explored and developed by Greek colonists beginning in the 8th century BC.

Agriculture is first attested with the Pre-Pottery A and Pre-Pottery B cultures, which developed out of the earlier Epipaleolithic Natufian culture of the region. In the following period the Yarmukian ( c. 8500 – 4300 BCE ), Jericho IX ( Lodian ) and others developed out of the Munhata, culture, which seem to have developed from a fusion of the Harifian and Pre-Pottery B ..