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Guapo
07-27-2013, 02:46 AM
Medeiros is a well known surname, originating in northern Portugal; during the time of the Western Goths, in the small county of Portucalense (which is now Northwestern Portugal).
Were the Goths majority in north Portugal?
Damiăo de Góis
07-27-2013, 01:26 PM
Were the Goths majority in north Portugal?
Nope, they didn't ethnically cleanse the locals.
Lusos
07-27-2013, 04:22 PM
The only majority in Portugal were Indo euros and Romans.
Damiăo de Góis
07-27-2013, 04:54 PM
The only majority in Portugal were Indo euros and Romans.
I think romans were also a minority, as were the moors or any other invaders.
Sikeliot
07-27-2013, 05:02 PM
Romans were a minority everywhere they went since they were military colonizers, not mass settlers.
riverman
07-27-2013, 05:03 PM
Were the Goths majority in north Portugal?
Is the surname itself gothic?
Lusos
07-27-2013, 05:06 PM
I think romans were also a minority, as were the moors or any other invaders.
Romans of the minority's,were the majority.
That's what I meant.
The Moors were even less.The Algarve was not part of Al-Andaluz,but an administrative region.
Damiăo de Góis
07-27-2013, 05:08 PM
Is the surname itself gothic?
No, it's related to some place with the same name, as it's with a lot of portuguese surnames.
Lusos
07-27-2013, 05:10 PM
Is the surname itself gothic?
Yes It seems like It.
Guapo
07-28-2013, 12:34 AM
Well Portuguese differ from Spanish in phenotype as well
Damiăo de Góis
07-28-2013, 12:46 AM
Well Portuguese differ from Spanish in phenotype as well
Depends on which spaniards, we are similar to nearby ones. But we only share some surnames with galicians.
Slycooper
08-07-2013, 09:56 PM
The first person to ever use the name was from Ponte De Lima in Northern Portugal.
Twistedmind
08-07-2013, 10:03 PM
The only majority in Portugal were Indo euros and Romans.
Well, Goths and Romans were as much Indo Europeans as Celts.
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