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Caparica (Almada)
Caparica is a former civil parish in the municipality (''concelho'') of Almada, Lisbon metropolitan area, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged with the civil parish of Trafaria into the new parish Caparica e Trafaria. The population in 2011 was 20,454, in an area of 11.02 km2. Location Caparica is situated on the Setúbal Peninsula, south of the River. On the opposite bank of the Tagus lies |
Lisboa Region
Lisbon Region () is one of the seven NUTS II designated regions of Portugal, which coincides with the NUTS III subregion Lisbon metropolitan area, Lisbon Metropolitan Area. The region covers an area of 3001.95 km2 (the smallest region on mainland Portugal) and includes a population of 2,815,851 inhabitants according to the 2011 census (the second most populated region in Portugal after the Norte Region, Portugal, Norte region), a density of 1039 inhabitants/km2. Considered as representing the Lisbon metropolitan area, Lisbon Metropolitan Region. It is a region of significant importance in industry (light and heavy), services, and it is highly urbanized. The gross domestic product (GDP) of the region was 73.3 billion euros in 2018, accounting for 36% of Portugal's economic output. GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power was 30,200 euros or 100% of the EU27 average in the same year. The GDP per employee was 92% of the EU average. History Prior to 2002, the area was inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belém (Lisbon)
Belém (; Portuguese language, Portuguese for Bethlehem; initially called Nossa Senhora de Belém do Grão-Pará, in English Our Lady of Bethlehem of Great Pará), often called Belém of Pará, is the capital and largest city of the state of Pará in the North Region, Brazil, north of Brazil. It is the gateway to the Amazon River with a busy Port of Belém, port, Belém/Val-de-Cans International Airport, airport, and Bus station, bus/coach station. Belém lies approximately 100 Kilometre, km (62.1 miles) upriver from the Atlantic Ocean, on the Pará River, which is part of the greater Amazon River system, separated from the larger part of the Amazon Delta, Amazon delta by ''Ilha de Marajó'' (Marajó, Marajo Island). With an estimated population of 1,303,403 people — or 2,491,052, considering its metropolitan area — it is the List of largest cities in Brazil, 12th most populous city in Brazil, as well as the Economy of Brazil, 16th by economic relevance. It is the second large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forte De São Sebastião Da Caparica
Forte or Forté may refer to: Music *Forte (music), a musical dynamic meaning "loudly" or "strong" * Forte number, an ordering given to every pitch class set * Forte (notation program), a suite of musical score notation programs * Forte (vocal group), a classical crossover singing trio Computing * Forté 4GL, a proprietary application server * Forté Agent, an email and news client used on the Windows operating system * Forte TeamWare, a family of development environments from Sun Microsystems * NetBeans IDE, formerly Forté for Java Companies * Forte Design Systems, an American software company * Forte Group, a former British hotel company * Forté Internet Software, makers of Forté Agent * Forte Land, a Chinese large-scale real estate company * Forte Oil PLC, former name of Ardova Plc, a Nigerian energy group * Trust House Forte, a British hotel and catering firm Fictional characters * Forte Stollen, a character from the Galaxy Angel anime * Bass (''Mega Man''), a cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porto Brandão
Porto Brandão is a locality in the freguesia of Caparica e Trafaria, Almada Municipality, Portugal. With an excellent strategic location, it is situated by the Tejo river. Monuments * Edifício do Lazareto, now in ruins. Until the 1990s, the buildings housed diverse families from the former Portuguese colonies in Africa especially Cape Verde Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands .... {{DEFAULTSORT:Porto Brandao Caparica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banática oil refinery, a sports club, Clube Recreativo e Desportivo de Banática, and a coast control unit of the Portuguese Republican National Guard.
Banática is a small town at Almada, Portugal. Its name may derive from the Arabic language word for prince. It is the first port at the Tejo. It has a Repsol Repsol S.A. El Nuevo Herald, 2012-05-31Originally an init ... References Almada Caparica[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iberian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula ( ), also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in south-western Europe. Mostly separated from the rest of the European landmass by the Pyrenees, it includes the territories of peninsular Spain and Continental Portugal, comprising most of the region, as well as the tiny adjuncts of Andorra, Gibraltar, and, pursuant to the traditional definition of the Pyrenees as the peninsula's northeastern boundary, a small part of France. With an area of approximately , and a population of roughly 53 million, it is the second-largest European peninsula by area, after the Scandinavian Peninsula. Etymology The Iberian Peninsula has always been associated with the River Ebro (Ibēros in ancient Greek and Ibērus or Hibērus in Latin). The association was so well known it was hardly necessary to state; for example, Ibēria was the country "this side of the Ibērus" in Strabo. Pliny the Elder, Pliny goes so far as to assert that the Greeks had called "the whole of the peninsula" Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman people, Roman civilisation from the founding of Rome, founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. It encompasses the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC), the Roman Republic (50927 BC), and the Roman Empire (27 BC476 AD) until the fall of the western empire. Ancient Rome began as an Italic peoples, Italic settlement, traditionally dated to 753 BC, beside the River Tiber in the Italian peninsula. The settlement grew into the city and polity of Rome, and came to control its neighbours through a combination of treaties and military strength. It eventually controlled the Italian Peninsula, assimilating the Greece, Greek culture of southern Italy (Magna Graecia) and the Etruscans, Etruscan culture, and then became the dominant power in the Mediterranean region and parts of Europe. At its hei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caper
''Capparis spinosa'', the caper bush, also called Flinders rose, is a perennial plant that bears rounded, fleshy leaves and large white to pinkish-white flowers. The taxonomic status of the species is controversial and unsettled. Species within the genus ''Capparis'' are highly variable, and interspecific hybrids have been common throughout the evolutionary history of the genus. As a result, some authors have considered ''C. spinosa'' to be composed of multiple distinct species, others that the taxon is a single species with multiple varieties or subspecies, or that the taxon ''C. spinosa'' is a hybrid between ''C. orientalis'' and ''C. sicula''.D. Rivera, C. Inocencio, C. Obón, E. Carreño, A. Reales, F. Alcaraz. (2002). "Archaeobotany of capers (''Capparis'') (Capparaceae)." ''Vegetation History and Archaeobotany.'' 11(4): 295–313 ''Capparis spinosa'' is native to almost all the Mediterranean Basin, circum-Mediterranean countries, and is included in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy. Through the expansion of the Roman Republic, it became the dominant language in the Italian Peninsula and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. It has greatly influenced many languages, Latin influence in English, including English, having contributed List of Latin words with English derivatives, many words to the English lexicon, particularly after the Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England, Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons and the Norman Conquest. Latin Root (linguistics), roots appear frequently in the technical vocabulary used by fields such as theology, List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names, the sciences, List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes, medicine, and List of Latin legal terms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
25 De Abril Bridge
The 25 de Abril Bridge (, 25th of April Bridge, ) is a suspension bridge connecting the city of Lisbon, capital of Portugal, to the municipality of Almada on the left (south) bank of the Tagus, Tagus River. It has a main span length of , making it the 48th List of longest suspension bridges, longest suspension bridge in the world. At the time of its inauguration in 1966, the bridge was named Salazar Bridge (), after Portuguese Prime Minister António de Oliveira Salazar, who ordered its construction. After the Carnation Revolution in 1974, which overthrew the remnants of Estado Novo (Portugal), Salazar's ''Estado Novo'' regime, the bridge was renamed for April 25, the date of the revolution. It is also commonly called the Tagus River Bridge (in Portuguese: , "bridge over the Tagus"). Later changes had to be made due to the rapid increase in population. In the 1990s, a fifth car lane was added, and in 1999, a lower deck, used as a railway track, which was planned since the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tagus
The Tagus ( ; ; ) is the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula. The river rises in the Montes Universales between Cuenca and Teruel, in mid-eastern Spain, flows , generally westward, and empties into the Atlantic Ocean in Lisbon. Name The river's Latin name is ''Tagus''. While the etymology is unclear, the most probable etymological origin for the hydronym ''Tagus'' is Indo-European *(s)tag- ('to drip'). Geography Source The Tagus River originates at an elevation of 1,593 meters above sea level in a place known as Fuente García, within the municipality of Frías de Albarracín in Teruel, Spain. Its source is located between the Muela de San Juan (1,830 m) and Cerro de San Felipe (1,839 m), in the Sierra de Albarracín, which belongs to the Montes Universales in the western branch of the Iberian System. Course The river flows through Spain for , passing through four autonomous communities (Aragón, Castilla-La Mancha, Madrid, and Extremadura) and a total of six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisbon Metropolitan Area
The Lisbon Metropolitan Area (; abbreviated as AML) is a metropolitan areas in Portugal, metropolitan area in Portugal centered on Lisbon, the capital and largest city of the country. The metropolitan area, covering 17 List of cities in Portugal, cities in 18 Municipalities of Portugal, municipalities, is the largest urban area in the country and the List of urban areas in the European Union, 11th largest in the European Union, with a population in 2023 of 2,961,177 in an area of 3,015.24 km². The Lisbon Metropolitan Area has the largest GDP (€98.5 billion) of any metropolitan area in Portugal. The region is home to the largest business cluster, tech hub in the country and a majority of Portugal's major multinational corporations by revenue are based there. History Portugal has been through a period of administrative changes since the 1974 revolution. More recently, new standards of territorial administration have been implemented to match European Union criteria. After s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
