Kingdom of Northern Lusitania Kingdom of Northern Lusitania The Kingdom of Northern Lusitania (Portuguese: "Reino da Lusitânia Setentrional") was a kingdom proposed by Napoleon in 1807 for the King of Etruria, Charles II, located in the North of Portugal. In 1807 Portugal refused Napoleon's demand to accede to the Continental System of embargo against the United Kingdom. Napoleon, having signed the Treaty of Fontainebleau on 27 October, 1807, with Spain, defined the occupation of Portugal, proposing that the country would be divided into three different states: A French invasion under Marshal Junot followed, and the capital city of Lisbon was captured on 1 December
Lusitania "a country of waters", a root word that formerly meant a prince or sovereign governor of a region. Ancient Romans, such as Pliny the Elder ("Natural History", 3.5) and Varro (116 – 27 BC, cited by Pliny), speculated that the name "Lusitania" had Roman origins, as when Pliny says "lusum enim Liberi Patris aut lyssam cum eo bacchantium nomen dedisse Lusitaniae et Pana praefectum eius universae" [Lusitania takes its name from the "Lusus" associated with Bacchus and the "Lyssa" of his Bacchantes, and Pan is its governor]. "Lusus" is usually translated as "game" or "play", while "lyssa" is a borrowing