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    The Treaty of Alcáçovas (also known as Treaty or Peace of Alcáçovas-Toledo) was signed on 4 September 1479 between the Catholic Monarchs of Castile and...
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    around 1300 by King Denis I, transforming the Moorish alcáçova into the Royal Palace of the Alcáçova. Between 1373 and 1375, King Ferdinand I ordered the...
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    monarchs added to the Palace of Alcáçova, and by the time King Manuel I of Portugal succeeded the throne, the Palace of Alcáçova was a large, but cramped, complex...
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    hill and near river Nabão. It has an outer defensive wall and a citadel (alcáçova) with a keep inside. The keep, a central tower of residential and defensive...
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    of the Portuguese. In 1479, Portugal and Castile signed the Treaty of Alcáçovas, which settled disputes between Castile and Portugal over the control...
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    that he believed the voyage to be in violation of the 1479 Treaty of Alcáçovas. After spending more than a week in Portugal, Columbus set sail for Spain...
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    formal agreements over the division of new territories in the Treaty of Alcaçovas (1479), as well as securing the crown of Castile for Isabella whose accession...
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    Tuscany The Kingdom of Portugal The Royal Alcáçova of Coimbra – under the House of Burgundy The Royal Alcáçova of São Jorge, Lisbon – under the houses of...
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    any catechism in the following years. The Portuguese missionary Pedro de Alcáçova would later write in 1554: In Cangoxima, the first place Father Master...
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    name of Scallabis, and limited to the fortified area currently known as Alcáçova de Santarém. A latter designation was "Scallabis Praesidium Iulium", given...
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    and Castile resolved major issues between them through the Treaty of Alcáçovas, including the issue of Isabella's rights to the crown of Castile. Through...
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    took control of the situation. The war ended in 1479 with the Treaty of Alcáçovas. Among the terms were the provision that Princess Isabella would marry...
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    Portuguese victory on the sea. The four separate peace treaties signed at Alcáçovas (4 September 1479) reflected that result: Portugal gave up the throne...
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    The city was recognized as a Portuguese possession by the Treaty of Alcáçovas (1479) and by the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494). In the 1540s the Portuguese...
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    Portuguese polyphony. Details of his life are sparse. He was born in Alcáçovas, in Alentejo, southern Portugal. He is known to have been a choir boy...
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    Portugal quickly claimed those lands under the terms of the Treaty of Alcáçovas, but Castile was able to persuade the Pope, who was Castilian, to issue...
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  • June 1481 by Pope Sixtus IV. It confirmed the substance of the Treaty of Alcáçovas, reiterating that treaty's confirmation of Castile in its possession of...
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    hill and near river Nabão. It has an outer defensive wall and a citadel (alcáçova) with a keep inside. The Keep, a central tower of residential and defensive...
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  • following format: concelho freguesias Ajuda, Salvador e Santo Ildefonso Alcáçova Assunção Barbacena Caia e São Pedro Santa Eulália São Brás e São Lourenço...
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    to the Arab merchants who had seen it. In 1506, the explorer Diogo de Alcáçova described the edifices in a letter to Manuel I of Portugal, writing that...
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  • Royal Palace (official royal residence) Alcáçova Palace at São Jorge Castle (official royal residence) Alcáçova Palace at Coimbra (official royal residence)...
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    that he believed the voyage to be in violation of the 1479 Treaty of Alcáçovas. The treaty had been ratified with the 1481 papal bull Aeterni regis,...
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    raises to back its claims two sixteenth-century treaties, the Treaty of Alcáçovas and the Treaty of Cintra, between Spain and Portugal, where both countries...
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    decisive Battle of Guinea. The war concluded in 1479 with the Treaty of Alcáçovas, which recognized Isabella and Ferdinand as sovereigns of Castile and...
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    22 November 2014. O Secretário dos despachos e coisas da Índia pero d´Alcáçova Carneiro, p.65, Maria Cecília Costa Veiga de Albuquerque Ramos, Universidade...
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    to D. Caetano Henriques Pereira Faria Saldanha de Lancastre, Count of Alcáçovas, and of Duke of Torres Novas to his eldest son. Neither are descended...
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    Salvador e Santo Ildefonso Barbacena e Vila Fernando Caia, São Pedro e Alcáçova Santa Eulália São Brás e São Lourenço São Vicente e Ventosa Terrugem e...
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    Monarchs, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, stating that by the Treaty of Alcáçovas signed in 1479 and by the 1481 papal bull Aeterni regis that granted all...
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  • of Córdoba (1236), Murcia (1243) and Seville (1248). By the Treaty of Alcaçovas with Portugal on March 6, 1460, the ownership of the Canary Islands was...
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    sovereignty over most of the African territories in dispute (Treaty of Alcáçovas, 1479). This was the first of many colonial wars among European powers...
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