the largest city of the district of Coimbra and the Centro Region. About 460,000 people live in the Região de Coimbra, comprising 19 municipalities and...
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Coimbra District (Portuguese: Distrito de Coimbra, pronounced [kuˈĩbɾɐ] or [ˈkwĩbɾɐ]) is located in the Centro Region, Portugal. The district capital...
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Lisbon Metropolitan Area Lisbon Metropolitan Area 148156 5612,0 16 Coimbra Region Coimbra Central 140796 440,8 17 Vila Franca de Xira Lisbon Metropolitan...
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Portugal. The cities with major administrative status inside this region are Coimbra, Aveiro, Viseu, Leiria, Castelo Branco and Guarda. It is one of the...
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Coimbra Viseu Lamego Santa Maria da Feira The County of Coimbra (Portuguese: Condado de Coimbra) was a political entity consisting of the lands of Coimbra...
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Suebi Kingdom with its capital in Braga. They came to dominate Aeminium (Coimbra) as well, and there were Visigoths to the south. The Suebi and the Visigoths...
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Comunidade Intermunicipal da Região de Coimbra (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʁɨʒiˈɐ̃w dɨ kuˈĩbɾɐ]; English: Coimbra Region) is an administrative division in...
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University of Coimbra (UC; Portuguese: Universidade de Coimbra, pronounced [univɨɾsiˈðaðɨ ðɨ kuˈĩbɾɐ]) is a public research university in Coimbra, Portugal...
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him as the primary authority over the Christian population in the region. Coimbra, like many other cities in early Al-Andalus, had a significant Christian...
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Fado (section Coimbra fado)
of Coimbra. It is also customary to organize serenades where songs are performed before the window of a woman to be courted. As in Lisbon, Coimbra fado...
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Associação Académica de Coimbra, Rugby is one of the leading teams of rugby union in Portugal. It is currently one of Portugal's top 8 clubs and plays...
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of the city of Coimbra, Portugal. ca.563 CE – Roman Catholic Diocese of Coimbra established. 714 CE – Muslims in power. 1064 – Coimbra taken by Christian...
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the autonomous region of Madeira. The city of Coimbra is the capital of the sub-region Região de Coimbra. The following list shows the number of inhabitants...
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synergies and competitive advantages. Coimbra iParque mission was to develop and modernize Coimbra as well as the region's economical activity by promoting...
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Figueira da Foz (category Populated places in Coimbra District)
also known as Figueira for short, is a city and a municipality in the Coimbra District, in Portugal. Practically at the midpoint of the Iberian Peninsula's...
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Chanfana (category Culture in Coimbra)
originally from the region comprising Miranda do Corvo and Vila Nova de Poiares, very common and well known in all of the District of Coimbra, particularly...
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The Coimbra Formation (Also known as Camadas de Coimbra or Calcários de S. Miguel) is a geological formation of Sinemurian (Lower Jurassic) age in the...
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Macau (redirect from Macau Special Administrative Region)
Monte Carlo, Monaco (1992) Porto, Portugal (1997) Linköping, Sweden (1997) Coimbra, Portugal (1998) São Paulo, Brazil (2000) Praia, Cape Verde (2007) Additionally...
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Arzila is a former civil parish in the municipality of Coimbra, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 655, in an area of 3.45 km2. On 28 January 2013 it...
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county would be formed decades later when what would become the County of Coimbra was conquered from the Moors by Hermenegildo Guterres. This moved the frontier...
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2015 there was a pilot Explorer Belt with 10 Rover scouts only of one Region, Coimbra, the pioneers of this activity in Portugal. The Explorer Belt in Portugal...
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Resende Centro Region (Central Portugal) [12 subregions] Baixo Mondego Subregion [8 municipalities] Coimbra District [8] Cantanhede Coimbra Condeixa-a-Nova...
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Portuguese sweet bread (redirect from Arrufada de Coimbra)
das Confrarias Gastronómicas. Arrufada (wikt:arrufada) originates from Coimbra which were once made by nuns of the Santa Clara convent. Historically,...
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connects Coimbra with Figueira da Foz, both belonging to the Região de Coimbra, in the Central Region, with a total length of 40 km (25 mi). In Coimbra, the...
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the Coimbra District to the south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The 19 municipalities of Aveiro District are split between Norte Region (Metropolitan...
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NUTS 3 revision. It was a subregion of the Centro Region, centered on the historical city of Coimbra. With an area of 2,062 km² and a population of 336...
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Eiras is a former civil parish in the municipality of Coimbra, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 12,097, in an area of 9.02 km2. On 28 January 2013...
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This is a list of notable alumni and students, from the University of Coimbra. Egas Moniz (1874–1955), physician and neurologist; 1949 Nobel Prize in...
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Mondego River (category Coimbra)
town of Penacova. The river widens by the city of Coimbra (a historical city, the largest of the region, with a university as a World Heritage Site), and...
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six-month siege. Dom Sesnando was attributed the city and the region as Count of Coimbra, a position which he would hold until his death in 1091. When...
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