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When Lisbon was captured in 1147 during the Reconquista, most of the Christian troops were from England and Germany who subsequently stayed on to repopulate the city. Do we know much about what effect this had? Was Lisbon seen as an ethnically and culturally non-Portuguese city after the conquest?

by /u/jimmythemini in /r/AskHistorians

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