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19 hours ago · The origin of the Kingdom of Portugal lay in the reconquista, the gradual reconquest of the Iberian peninsula from the Moors. After establishing itself as a separate kingdom in 1139, Portugal completed its reconquest of Moorish territory by reaching Algarve in 1249, but its independence continued to be threatened by neighbouring Castile until the signing of the Treaty of Ayllón in 1411.
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The National Salvation Junta (Portuguese: Junta de Salvação...
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The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (Portuguese:...
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Background. Ceuta is a north African coastal city...
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19 hours ago · Example of prehistoric talaiot in Mallorca Archeological evidence indicates the presence of the porc negre (black pig) in pre-Roman settlements. The Balearic Islands were first colonised by humans during the 3rd millennium BC, around 2500–2300 BC from the Iberian Peninsula or southern France, by people associated with the Bell Beaker culture.
- 3,640.11 km² (1,405.45 sq mi)
- Mediterranean
- 1,436 m (4711 ft)
- 920,605 (2021 Census)
19 hours ago · Barbados eventually had one of the world's biggest sugar industries. One group instrumental in ensuring the early success of the industry was the Sephardic Jews, who had originally been expelled from the Iberian peninsula, to end up in Dutch Brazil.
19 hours ago · View of the Beirut Peninsula, 2015. The earliest settlement of Beirut was on an island in the Beirut River, but the channel that separated it from the banks silted up and the island ceased to be. Excavations in the downtown area have unearthed layers of Phoenician, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Crusader, and Ottoman remains.
19 hours ago · Málaga is located in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Costa del Sol (Coast of the Sun) on the northern side of the Alboran Sea (the westernmost portion of the Mediterranean Sea). It lies about 100 kilometres (62 miles) east of the Strait of Gibraltar and about 130 kilometres (81 miles) east of Tarifa (the southernmost point of ...
19 hours ago · Place in China Tibet Sovereign state China Capital Lhasa Area • Total 2,500,000 km 2 (970,000 sq mi) Population • 2023 estimate 7,000,000 (Tibetan people) Map of Greater Tibet consist of Ü-Tsang, Kham and Amdo. Modern states consist of Tibet Autonomous Region + Parts of Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan. Also, a large part of present-day Uyghuristan and parts of India, Nepal, Bhutan ...
