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Portugal's First Tribes

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Many people are unsure as to who were the first official tribes to inhabit the popular Spanish resort but historians and today’s population strongly believe that Portugal’s first residents were known as the Lusitanians. They are known as a Celtic community that first arrived after 1000 B.C.

During this time, there were many others tribes that wanted to claim the land for their own and this resulted in the Connii in the Algarve settling down. Other elements were occurring and Caesar and Augustus together completed the Roman conquest in the nation and this caused the provenience of Lusitania to become a flourishing part of the country.

This was to not to last eternally because in the 5 century A.D. Germanic invaders took over the whole Iberian Peninsula and this resulted in the Visigoths assuming command. However, in the north, the Suevi put up a fight and weren’t overrun by Visigoths until the late 6th century A.D.

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