Portugal Travel

1st Period - Pre Roman Period -(Before 3rd Century BC)

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800.000 -- Homo Erectus in Peninsular
300.000 -- Hunting camps
100.000 -- Evidence of Neanderthal tribes
35.000 -- Cro-Magnon tribe in Peninsular
20.000 -- Solutrean Period - (Vila Nova de Foz Cõa rock paintings)
18.000 -- Cave Dwellers
2.500 -- Paleolithic tribe across the whole of the Peninsular
2.000 -- Emergence of Bronze Age in the Peninsular
1.100 -- Phoenicians settled in southern coastal regions
1.000 -- Tartessus kingdom in southern Spain spread into southern Portugal
1.000 -- Evidence of Phoenician artefacts in southern Peninsular
1.000 -- Emergence of villages in the western part of the Peninsular
1.000 -- Phoenicians start trading with the southern coast now partly known as the Algarve
900 -- Phoenicians create trading colony of Cartage on North African coast
800 -- Phoenicians artefacts indicate colony at Balsa (Tavira in the Algarve)
700 -- Celtic invaders settle in land of future Portugal
700 -- Neothlitic tribe across most of the Peninsular
700 -- Evidence of Tartessus still occupying southern Peninsular
600 -- Decline of tribe of Tartessus 600 Greek myth of Ulysses founding the town of Olissipo (Lisbon)
600 -- Phoenicians presence at Balsa (Tavira) destroyed by violence
600 -- First evidence of writing in western Iberia
600 -- Tribe known as Conii inhabited the Algarve and southern Alentejo
500 -- Strong influx of Celts from northern Europe into western Iberia
500 -- First use of coins as money 400 Further wave of Celts penetrating the Alentejo and parts of the Algarve
400 -- Tribe known as Turduli inhabited the area at the mouth of the River Guadiana
400 -- Tribes known as Cynetes inhabited villages of Castro Marim, Faro, Silves and Tavira
400 -- The Celts inhabited the whole of the northern part of Portugal
400 -- "Ora Maritima" written by Avienus describing the inhabitants of western Iberia

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