Possible Clues:

• From Europe south of the Pyrenees
• Spaniard, perhaps, and one from Monrovia left out?
• Spaniard or Portuguese
• Old language of a Roman emperor, missing core of Latin
• European succeeded leaving Russian, perhaps
• Certain kind of Russian should avoid south of Portugal?
• From Lisbon, say
• One man, not the Messiah, embracing East European
• Of south-west European peninsula
• Native of Russian region, beginning to go off a Spaniard?