Henry The Navigator

Henry The Navigator

male, deceased (1460)
ceuta, Muslim, Portuguese, From Porto, Map-maker, North Africa…iberianpeninsula, iberian
Infante Henrique, Duke of Viseu <small>KG</small> (Porto, March 4, 1394-Sagres, November 13, 1460); pron.), was an "infante" (prince) of the...

José Saramago

male, 86 years old
Portuguese, Nobel Prize winner, Magic realism writer, Portuguese Communist Party member, Nobel Prize for Literature, pessimist…iberianpeninsula
José de Sousa Saramago, <small>GColSE</small&gt; is a Nobel-laureate Portuguese writer, playwright and journalist. His works commonly present s...
Abd-Ar-Rahman III

Abd-Ar-Rahman III

male, deceased (961)
Pederasty in the Muslim world, Medina Azahara, andalusian, medina, abbasid, mecca…iberian, iberianpeninsula
Abd-ar-Rahman III was the Emir and Caliph of Cordoba (912-961), and a prince of the Ummayad dynasty in the Al-Andalus (Moorish Iberia). He ascended...
Abd Ar-Rahman I

Abd Ar-Rahman I

male, deceased (788)
iberia, Abbasids, iberianpeninsula, Umayyad caliph of Cordoba, Al-andalus, Muslim
Abd ar-Rahman I (born 731; ruled from 756 through his death circa the year 788) was the founder of a Muslim dynasty that ruled the greater part of...
Viriathus

Viriathus

male
Rebel, Castilian language, Douro, Lusitanian, Extremadura, Ancient Roman enemies…iberianpeninsula
Viriathus (known as "Viriato" in Portuguese and Castilian) (180 BC - 139 BC) was the most important leader of the Lusitanian tribe that resisted...
Yusuf Ibn Tashfin

Yusuf Ibn Tashfin

male, deceased (1106)
Abu Bakr ibn Umar, Zaynab an-Nafzawiyyat, Aghmat, moorish, sahara, Sultans of Morocco…iberianpeninsula
Yusuf ibn Tashfin or Tashufin was the Berber Almoravid ruler in North Africa and Al-Andalus (Moorish Iberia). He took the title of "amir...

Juan Ponce de León

male, deceased (1521)
death by poisoning, Fountain of Youth, spanish conquistador, Florida colonial, moorish, Age of Discovery…iberianpeninsula
Juan Ponce de León (c. 1460 - July 1521) was a Spanish conquistador. He was born in Santervás de Campos (Valladolid). As a young man he joined th...
Al-Walid I

Al-Walid I

male, deceased (715)
Suleiman ibn Abd al-Malik, Al-Hajjaj bin Yousef, khorasan, Tariq ibn Ziyad, Fergana, Al-andalus…iberianpeninsula
Al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik or Al-Walid I (668 - 715) was an Umayyad caliph who ruled from 705 - 715. He continued the expansion of the Islamic...
Martial

Martial

male, deceased (102)
Pederastic poetry, roman emperor, epigram, ancient rome, emperor, latin language…iberianpeninsula
Marcus Valerius Martialis, known in English as Martial, was a Latin poet from Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula) best known for his twelve books of...

Vímara Peres

male
Christian, Warlord, visigoth, galicia, moor, count…iberianpeninsula
Vímara Peres, Count of Portugal (Galicia, circa 820 - Guimarães, 873) from Vimara (Weimar or Guimar) and Peres (son of Peter) was a Christian wa...