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The Centro Region ((ポルトガル語:Região Centro), ) is a region in central Portugal, and its capital is Coimbra. Other local cities with major administrative status inside this region are Aveiro, Viseu, Leiria, Castelo Branco, Covilhã, Figueira da Foz and Guarda. It is one of seven Regions of Portugal (NUTS II subdivisions). This is one of the regions of Europe, considered by the European Union for statistical and geographical purposes. Its population in 2011 totalled 2,327,026 inhabitants,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher= INE )〕 and its area is 28,462 km² (density of 82 inhabitants per square kilometre). == History == Inhabited by the Lusitanians, an Indo-European people living in the western Iberian Peninsula, the Romans settled in the region and colonized it as a part of the Roman Province of ''Lusitânia''. The Roman town of Conímbriga, near Coimbra, is among the most noted and well preserved remains of that period. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Visigoths were the main rulers and colonizers from the 5th to the 8th century. In the 8th century the Muslim conquest of Iberia turned the region a Muslim-dominated territory. In the earliest years of the Christian ''Reconquista'', just before the arise of a Portuguese national identity, the region was a battleplace for Muslim Moors and Christian crusaders. Once the Moors were expelled, the Christian kings and landlords made the region a county, the County of Coimbra. It was integrated into the newly created ''Condado Portucalensis'', the early precursor of the modern nation of Portugal. The modern region matches roughly the boundaries of the older historical Beira Province plus the ''Oeste'' in former Estremadura and ''Médio Tejo'' in former Ribatejo. Beira was an historical province of Portugal and its name was used by the heirs to the Portuguese throne during the monarchy regime, before 1910. The princes were known as the Princes of Beira. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Centro Region, Portugal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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