Portugal's King Vanished, and Four Men Claimed to Be Him
Early Modern Europe

Portugal's King Vanished, and Four Men Claimed to Be Him

A Portuguese king rode into Africa in 1578 with sixty thousand soldiers and came back as nobody—and what happened to his body afterward is stranger than the battle itself.

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PortugalNorth AfricaEarly Modern PeriodColonialismMythology and ReligionSuccession CrisesIberian PeninsulaMessianismEmpire Building16th Century

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