1841 Meyer print COIMBRA, PORTUGAL
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1841 Meyer print COIMBRA, PORTUGAL Nice view titled Coimbra in Portugal,from steel engraving with fine detail and clear impression, nice hand coloring, approx. image size is 10 x 15 cm. From Meyer's Universum , published by Bibliographic Institute Hildburghausen Germany. Coimbra , city, capital, and concelho (municipality), Coimbra district, north central Portugal, on the northern bank of the Rio Mondego. A 4th-century Latin inscription identifies Coimbra with Aeminium, while Condeixa, 8 mi (13 km) southwest, was the ancient Conimbriga or Conimbrica. Aeminium was for more than a century a Moorish stronghold, but in 878 it was recaptured by Alfonso III of Asturias and Leon and peopled by Galicians from the north. When the see of Conimbriga was transferred there, the bishop kept the old name and Aeminium became known as Coimbra. Captured by Ferdinand I of Castile in 1064, it was for more than a century a base for the reconquest of Portugal from the Moors. From 1139 until 1260, when it was replaced by Lisbon, the city of Coimbra was the capital of Portugal. Six medieval kings--Sancho I and II, Afonso II and III, Pedro I, and Ferdinand I--were born there, as was the 16th-century poet Francisco de Sá de Miranda. Portugal's oldest university, founded in 1290 in Lisbon, finally settled at Coimbra as the Universidade de Coimbra in 1537.
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