Roman ruins of Quinta da Abicada Roman ruins of Quinta da Abicada Abicada (Villa Romana de Abicada or Estação romana da Quinta da Abicada) is the name of Roman ruins north of the municipality of Alvor, in Roman times the colony of Ipses, which was authorized to mint currency, and near Mexilhoeira Grande in the district of Portimão, Algarve, Portugal and where Pompeia Exoce looked after the burial of her grandson. Both were in the Roman province of Lusitania. Portimão, known as Portus Magnus, was an important Roman commercial port when the Villa was built. The complex is located on a south-facing promontory spur located between
Claudius, Duke of Lusitania the Franks and routed them, killing 5,000 and capturing 2,000, as well as their camp. According to Isidore of Seville, "nulla umquam in Hispaniis Gothorum uictoria uel maior in bello vel similis extitit": "No victory of the Goths in Spain was ever greater or even equal to it." The chronicler John of Biclarum, with even more excitement, exaggerated his figures to make Claudius, the next Gideon, defeat 60,000 Franks (the evil Midianites in the biblical metaphor) with merely 300 men. Claudius, Duke of Lusitania Claudius was a Hispano-Roman Catholic "dux" (duke) of Lusitania (or "dux Emeretensis civitatis") in the late