municipality of Silves in 2011 was 37,126, in an area of 680.06 km2. The urbanized area of the city proper has approximately 11,000 inhabitants. Silves is the...
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The Castle of Silves is a castle in the civil parish of Silves in the municipality of Silves in the Portuguese Algarve. It's believed that the first fortifications...
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landfall in Portugal. At Silves, a single ship carrying about 100 English crusaders separated from its fleet by a storm arrived in Silves amid great confusion...
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The siege of Silves was an action of the Third Crusade and the Portuguese Reconquista in 1189. The city of Silves in the Almohad Caliphate was besieged...
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the Portuguese King Afonso III. With the decline of the importance of the city of Silves (which was made the regional bishopric as Diocese of Silves shortly...
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Algoz (category Former parishes of Silves, Portugal)
(Portuguese pronunciation: [alˈɣɔʃ]) is a town and the seat of the civil parish of Algoz e Tunes in the municipality of Silves, in Algarve, Portugal....
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the civil parish of Algoz e Tunes, in the municipality of Silves, in Algarve region, Portugal. It was the seat of its own civil parish until 2013 when...
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Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the...
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major city of Silves, the most important one in the Gharb al-Andalus. On July 20, 1189, the Portuguese host set up camp close to Silves just as the crusader...
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ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2021-04-15. "Iberia's first kunekune pigs born in Silves". Portugal Resident. 2019-06-24. Retrieved 2023-03-12. The New Zealand Kunekune...
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The Silves Cathedral (Portuguese: Sé Catedral de Silves) is a former cathedral in the city of Silves, in the Algarve region of southern Portugal. A mosque...
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Crusade, he sacked Alvor and took Silves in 1189, an event recounted in detail by an eyewitness in De itinere navali. Silves was an important city of the South...
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practically ever since the foundation of the County of Portugal in 868. King Sancho I had captured Silves in Algarve in 1189, however the great Muslim city...
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northeast) and Portimão (to the east). To the north of Lagos is the road to Silves, the first capital of the Algarve, Monchique (spa town/mountain), Milfontes...
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Kingdom of the Algarve (category Portugal articles missing geocoordinate data)
the Portuguese Reconquista. The title King of Silves was first used by Sancho I of Portugal after the first conquest of the Algarvian city of Silves in...
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Loulé (redirect from Loulé, Portugal)
located in Rossio, in front of the Horta D’El Rei, alongside the Porta de Silves. The new economy, based on agriculture, supported by bartering across regions...
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Silves may refer to : Silves, Portugal, municipality and former bishopric in Algarve, southern Portugal Silves (parish), a civil parish in the municipality...
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Pêra (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpeɾɐ]) is a former civil parish in the municipality of Silves, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish...
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Armação de Pêra (category Freguesias of Silves, Portugal)
Armação de Pêra is a town (vila) and Portuguese parish (freguesia) in the municipality of Silves. The population in 2011 was 4,867, in an area of 7.99 km2...
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cities since Portugal became an independent kingdom (de facto 1128): Braga, Coimbra, Lamego, Porto and Viseu, as well as Évora, Lisbon and Silves, which were...
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2021. "18 de Janeiro de 1934 – Os dias em que Silves parou". Terra Ruiva: Jornal do Concelho de Silves. 18 January 2016. Retrieved 9 February 2021. "A...
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westernmost part of the presently Portuguese region of Algarve, near Cape St. Vincent, with its capital in Silves. The Taifa of Silves was constituted in the early...
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Formoso e Silves são os resistentes" [Nacional fall with Portimonense; Vale Formoso and Silves are the resisters]. Público (in Portuguese). Retrieved...
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School of Arts, Michigan, US Deutsche Schule Algarve, German school in Silves, Portugal Deutsche Schule Athen or German School of Athens, Greece Direct School...
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fleet assisted King Sancho I of Portugal in besieging Silves from 21 July to 3 September 1189. After the fall of Silves, according to an eyewitness account...
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las Veletas [es] in Cáceres, Spain Portuguese cistern (Mazagan) in El Jadida, Morocco Cistern in Silves, Portugal Matera, southern Italy Asa of Judah...
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fledgling Kingdom of Portugal. Muslim influence in Lagoa was profound, from the rich patrimony left behind, not only in neighboring Silves (then taifa capital)...
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Albufeira (redirect from Albufeira, Portugal)
fortifications that included Silves, Loulé and Faro. Tower of Guia (Portuguese: Torre Velho) Tower of Medronheira (Portuguese: Torre da Medronheira), constructed...
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Iberian lynx (redirect from Portuguese Lynx)
"Quinze crias de lince ibérico nascem em Silves" [Fifteen Iberian lynx cubs born in Silves]. Expresso Sapo (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 20...
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surname, and opted for Silves simply because Portuguese surnames of that era are usually toponyms and that the town of Silves, in the Algarve, not far...
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