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Glória do Ribatejo is a former
civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
in the municipality of
Salvaterra de Magos Salvaterra de Magos () is a municipality in the district of Santarém in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 22,159, in an area of 243.93 km2. The present Mayor is Hélder Manuel Ramalho de Sousa Esménio of the PS. The previous mayor Ana ...
, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Glória do Ribatejo e Granho. It has a total area of 55.03 km², and a total population of 3,427 inhabitants according to the 2001 census. For decades during the
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and after the fall of the Soviet Union, under the administration of Oliveira Salazar and his successors, it was the site of RARET (Portuguese RAdio de RETransmissão (Retransmission Radio)), a United States installation that broadcast programs of
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via shortwave to nations of Eastern Europe behind the
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, including the Soviet Union (and later Russia). It operated from 1951 to 1996, and was the only one to be operated outside Germany. After it was closed, the installation was abandoned. The town is the setting for '' Glória'', a 2021 historical spy thriller that is the first Netflix production made in Portugal.


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