Lusitanic definitions of "Lusitanic" or "Lusitanian" may include medieval-to-modern Galicia, because the Portuguese people and Galician people share close linguistic and cultural ties, including pre-Roman Celtic ones. Modern Portuguese and the Galician language both derive from medieval Galician-Portuguese, and the term is a cultural classification more than a historic–geographical definition. Although, in Ancient Roman times, the Gallaeci were not part of Lusitania province, what became the Galician-Portuguese language developed from Vulgar Latin in Gallaecia, which comprised what is now Galicia, as well as north Portugal, the center of the development of post-Roman Portuguese culture. Later Portuguese use of the name "Lusitania"
Lusitania (1805 ship) January 1830 with 500 casks and 36 tanks of whale oil. "Lusitania" was last listed in "Lloyd's Register" in 1838, but the listing had been unchanged for several years and showed no owner or trade. Citations References Lusitania (1805 ship) Lusitania was a British merchant vessel launched in 1804. She emerges from the general background for two notable events in her history, one in 1813 when the French Navy captured and released her, and then between 1826 and 1830 for a whaling voyage. On 27 August 1807, Captain John Carman received a letter of marque for "Lusitania". In 1813 "Lusitania"s