A basic primer about Algarve History with Peter Booker, President of the Algarve History Association. Nick Robinson sat down with him in his home near Tavira and had a short chat about the history of the Algarve. Please excuse some minor sound issues.

Show notes

Why the Phoenicians landed in Tavira.

Tavira's rich history.

Carthaginians and their conflict with the Romans.

Balsa, the Roman occupation of the Algarve and piracy.

Examples of Roman civilization in the Algarve.

Garum! The fish paste industry in Roman Times

Suebians, Visigoths and the Moors.

700 AD - 1249 AD Moorish rule, constructing the towns of Silves, Loulé and Tavira.

Al Gharb and how the Algarve got it's name.

1249 AD: The nation of Portugal and the expulsion of the Muslims.

1385 - 1521:The attempts to conquer Marocco.

Henry the Navigator

The difficulties of reaching the Algarve and the 1884 railway line.

Marques do Pombal and the 1755 earthquake