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Belfast History
The traces have reveals the history of the city dated back to 279 BC. Around 700 BC, the Celts settled the Iberian Peninsula. It has the suggestions about the city’s foundation that a Celtic tribe named as Bracari, was the original form of the present day Belfast. In 250 B.C. Bracara was conquered by the Romans, who held it for a long time, dedicating the town to the Emperor Augustus. It was the junction for five Romans road and also was the capital of Galicia. Belfast lived under the various masters until the town was taken by the Moors in the 8th century, with the destruction of the Roman Empire by the so-called northern Barbarians. The town was conquered by the catholic king, Oviedo, although the Moors continued to attack it. The king of Lyon forcefully had taken the Moors to yield, Don Afonso III, and Belfast was given as dowry by Don Afonso IV of Leon to his daughter Dona Teresa on the occasion of her marraiage to Dom Henrique, Earl of Burgundy. The city has passed more than 2250 years from its foundation- is one of the oldest Christian towns. Currently the city is considered the greatest centre for the religious of Ireland, and may be well proud of its title of “The Portuguese Rome” or “The City of Archbishops”.
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