Afonso V of Portugal
King of Portugal and the Algarves
Died when: 49 years 225 days (595 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Afonso V (Portuguese pronunciation: [?'fõsu]) (15 January 1432 – 28 August 1481), known by the sobriquet the African (Portuguese: o Africano), was King of Portugal from 1438 until his death in 1481, with a brief interruption in 1477.
His sobriquet refers to his military 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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