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    survived the period in Portugal. In 2017 Mértola started the process to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Mértola was inhabited at least since the Iron...
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    Marcia Anne Miller), Countess of Mértola, eldest daughter of Diana, Baroness Conyers and Fauconberg and Countess of Mértola. The countess was survived by...
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    Almodôvar Alvito Barrancos Beja Castro Verde Cuba Ferreira do Alentejo Mértola Moura Odemira Ourique Serpa Vidigueira All 14 municipalities are divided...
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  • The title Count of Mértola (Portuguese: Conde de Mértola) was granted to Frederick, 1st Duke of Schomberg by Afonso VI of Portugal, in 1663, as a reward...
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    12th-century church and former mosque in the civil parish of Mértola in the municipality of Mértola, in the Portuguese Alentejo. The building was likely built...
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    Castle of Mértola (Portuguese: Castelo de Mértola) is a well-preserved medieval castle located in the civil parish and municipality of Mértola, in the Portuguese...
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    The Taifa of Mértola (Arabic: طائفة مارتلة) was a medieval Islamic Moorish taifa that existed in what is now southeastern Portugal. It existed during...
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  • Miller (later Countess of Mértola), 9th holder of the barony of Fauconberg and 16th of Conyers. Since Diana, Countess of Mértola's death in 2013, both titles...
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    The Ponte Velha de Mértola ("Old Bridge of Mértola"), also referred to as the Ponte Branca or Torre do Rio, is a structure located along the Guadiana...
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    numerous Islamic taifas (independent principalities), including those of Mértola (1044–45), Huelva (1051), Algeciras (1055), Ronda (1065) and Arcos (1069)...
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  • Mértola, which Ibn Qasī made the capital. Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad al-Biṭrūjī, the governor of Niebla, then joined the rebels. Now controlling Silves, Mértola...
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    the east of Portalegre, includes medieval villages. In the south, near Mértola, there is another nature park area, named Parque Natural do Vale Guadiana...
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    Charles Schomberg, Marquess of Harwich, Frederica Mildmay, Countess of Mértola, Lady Caroline Schomberg, and Lady Mary Schomberg. However, Liselotte in...
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    pdf [bare URL PDF] "Mertola Mosque". discoverislamicart.org. Retrieved 30 September 2018. "Igreja matriz de Mértola". patrimoniocultural.gov.pt...
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    Dynasty) This region includes the Alentejo and Algarve region of Portugal. Mértola 1033–1044 (Tayfurid Dynasty); 1044–1091 (to Seville) Saltés and Huelva...
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  • Alfonso VI of León and Castile between 1093 and 1094. The first Taifa of Mértola lasted from 1033 to 1044, when it became part of the Taifa of Seville....
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  • state Espírito Santo do Turvo, São Paulo state Espírito Santo, a parish of Mértola Espírito Santo, a parish of Nisa Igreja do Espírito Santo (Évora), a church...
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    the German soldier of fortune, Friedrich Hermann von Schönberg, Count of Mértola, The brigade, under Schomberg's leadership, proved a decisive factor in...
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  • Força Aérea pode ir de Alcochete para Mértola" [Air Force proving ground may be relocated from Alcochete to Mértola]. Público (in Portuguese). Retrieved...
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    officer from her window, the now-locally famous "janela de Mértola", or "window of Mértola". The attribution to Gabriel-Joseph de la Vergne, Comte de...
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  • Diana Mary Miller, 11th Countess of Mértola, 15th Baroness Conyers, 9th Baroness Fauconberg (5 July 1920 – 2 March 2013) was the eldest daughter of Sackville...
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  • Remoães Roussas São Paio Vila Alcaria Ruiva Corte do Pinto Espírito Santo Mértola Santana de Cambas São João dos Caldeireiros São Miguel do Pinheiro São...
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    Museu de Mertola is an archaeological museum complex in Mertola, Portugal. Mertola has three main museum sites. The Roman museum (the Roman city was Myrtilis...
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  • Mértola's former mosque was transformed into a church in 1238....
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    control was very large, stretching from the Sierra Morena and the taifas of Mértola and Silves in the south, to the Campo de Calatrava in the west, the Montes...
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    Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg (category Counts of Mértola)
    Earl of Brentford, Earl of Bangor, Baron Teyes and Count of Mértola) except Count of Mértola died with him. The town of Schomberg, Ontario was renamed to...
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    Old Mosque in Mértola, Portugal, converted into a church....
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    municipality in Portugal. The municipality is limited on the north by Mértola Municipality, on the east by Huelva Province in Spain, on the southeast...
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    Reconquista: King Sancho II of Portugal conquers the cities of Aljustrel and Mértola from the Moors. February 9 – Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty: The Mongol...
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    Biennial (Italy), the Boost Festival (Netherlands), the Festival Islâmico (Mértola, Portugal) and the Era Nowe Horyzonty (Wrocław, Poland). Murat Ertel –...
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