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Abrantes
Abrantes is a municipality in the central Médio Tejo subregion of Portugal.
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Alandroal
Alandroal is a municipality in the Portuguese district of Évora located on the eastern frontier with Spain along the right margin of the Guadiana River in the Central Alentejo region.
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Alcácer do Sal
Alcácer do Sal is a municipality in Portugal, located in Setúbal District.
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Alenquer, Portugal
Alenquer is a municipality in the Oeste Subregion in Portugal.
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Alentejo
The Alentejo is a geographical, historical and cultural region of south-central and southern Portugal.
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Algarve
The Algarve (from الغرب "the west") is the southernmost region of continental Portugal.
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Aljustrel
Aljustrel is a town and a municipality in the Portuguese district of Beja.
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Almeida, Portugal
Almeida is a fortified village and a municipality in the sub-region of Beira Interior Norte and the District of Guarda, Portugal.
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Alvega
Alvega is a former freguesia ("civil parish"), located in the municipality of Abrantes, in Santarém District, Portugal.
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history from the Greek Dark Ages of the 13th–9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (AD 600).
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Ancient Rome
In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.
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Arabriga
Arabriga is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family.
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Ardila
The Ardila is a river of Spain and Portugal and a tributary of the Guadiana.
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Ave River
Ave River (Rio Ave) is a river in Northern Portugal.
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Évora
Évora (Ebora) is a city and a municipality in Portugal.
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Óbidos, Portugal
Óbidos (Eburobrittium) is a town (vila) and a municipality in the Oeste Subregion in Portugal.
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Barreiro, Portugal
Barreiro is a town and a municipality in Setúbal District in Portugal.
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Berlengas
The Berlengas archipelago is a group of small islands off the Portuguese coast, west of the town of Peniche in Oeste region.
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Braga
Braga (Bracara) is a city and a municipality in the northwestern Portuguese district of Braga, in the historical and cultural Minho Province.
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Bragança, Portugal
Bragança (Bergáncia; Brigantia, Braganza) is a city and municipality in north-eastern Portugal, capital of the district of Bragança, in the Alto Trás-os-Montes subregion of Portugal.
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Cape Santo André
Cape Santo André (Portuguese for Saint Andrew) is a cape located in the Northern coast of continental Portugal, in Santo André, municipality of Póvoa de Varzim.
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Castelo de Vide
Castelo de Vide is a municipality in Portugal, with a population of 3,407 inhabitants in 2011, in an area of.
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Castle of Almourol
The Castle of Almourol is a medieval castle atop the islet of Almourol in the middle of the Tagus River, located in the civil parish of Praia do Ribatejo, from the municipal seat of Vila Nova da Barquinha, in Portugal's Center Region.
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Castro Daire
Castro Daire is a municipality in Viseu District in Portugal.
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Celtici
The Celtici (in Portuguese, Spanish, and Galician languages, Célticos) were a Celtic tribe or group of tribes of the Iberian peninsula, inhabiting three definite areas: in what today are the regions of Alentejo and the Algarve in Portugal; in the Province of Badajoz and north of Province of Huelva in Spain, in the ancient Baeturia; and along the coastal areas of Galicia.
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Celts
The Celts (see pronunciation of ''Celt'' for different usages) were an Indo-European people in Iron Age and Medieval Europe who spoke Celtic languages and had cultural similarities, although the relationship between ethnic, linguistic and cultural factors in the Celtic world remains uncertain and controversial.
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Centro Region, Portugal
The Centro Region (Região Centro) is a region in central Portugal.
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Chaves, Portugal
Chaves is a city and a municipality in the north of Portugal.
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Classics
Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity.
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Coimbra
Coimbra (Corumbriga)) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The population at the 2011 census was 143,397, in an area of. The fourth-largest urban centre in Portugal (after Lisbon, Porto, Braga), it is the largest city of the district of Coimbra, the Centro region and the Baixo Mondego subregion. About 460,000 people live in the Região de Coimbra, comprising 19 municipalities and extending into an area. Among the many archaeological structures dating back to the Roman era, when Coimbra was the settlement of Aeminium, are its well-preserved aqueduct and cryptoporticus. Similarly, buildings from the period when Coimbra was the capital of Portugal (from 1131 to 1255) still remain. During the Late Middle Ages, with its decline as the political centre of the Kingdom of Portugal, Coimbra began to evolve into a major cultural centre. This was in large part helped by the establishment the University of Coimbra in 1290, the oldest academic institution in the Portuguese-speaking world. Apart from attracting many European and international students, the university is visited by many tourists for its monuments and history. Its historical buildings were classified as a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 2013: "Coimbra offers an outstanding example of an integrated university city with a specific urban typology as well as its own ceremonial and cultural traditions that have been kept alive through the ages.".
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Conímbriga
Conímbriga is one of the largest Roman settlements excavated in Portugal, and was classified as a National Monument in 1910.
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Covilhã
Covilhã is a city and a municipality in the Centro region, Portugal.
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Crato, Portugal
Crato is a municipality in Portalegre District in Portugal.
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Cynetes
The Cynetes or Conii were one of the pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula, living in today's Algarve and Lower Alentejo regions of southern Portugal and southern of province of Badajoz and northwest of provinces of Córdoba and Ciudad Real in Spain before the 6th century BCE (in what part of this become the southern part of the Roman province of Lusitania).
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Douro
The Douro (Douro; Duero; translation) is one of the major rivers of the Iberian Peninsula, flowing from its source near Duruelo de la Sierra in Soria Province across northern-central Spain and Portugal to its outlet at Porto.
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Eburobrittium
Eburobrittium was a Roman town in Lusitania, located near the present town of Óbidos, Portugal.
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Elvas
Elvas is a Portuguese municipality, former episcopal city and frontier fortress of easternmost central Portugal, located in the district of Portalegre in Alentejo.
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Fiães (Santa Maria da Feira)
Fiães is a Portuguese civil parish (freguesia) and a city (cidade), located in the municipality of Santa Maria da Feira.
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Gallaeci
The Gallaeci or Callaeci were a large Celtic tribal federation who inhabited Gallaecia, the north-western corner of Iberia, a region roughly corresponding to what is now northern Portugal, Galicia, western Asturias and western Castile and León in Spain, before and during the Roman period.
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Gallaecia
Gallaecia or Callaecia, also known as Hispania Gallaecia, was the name of a Roman province in the north-west of Hispania, approximately present-day Galicia, northern Portugal, Asturias and Leon and the later Suebic Kingdom of Gallaecia.
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Geography of Portugal
Portugal is a coastal nation in southwestern Europe, located at the western end of the Iberian Peninsula, bordering Spain (on its northern and eastern frontiers: a total of). The Portuguese territory also includes a series of archipelagos in the Atlantic Ocean (the Açores and Madeira), which are strategic islands along the North Atlantic. The extreme south is not too far from the Strait of Gibraltar, leading to the Mediterranean Sea. In total, the country occupies an area of of which is land and water. Despite these definitions, the Portugal-Spain border remains an unresolved territorial dispute between the two countries. Portugal does not recognise the border between Caia and Ribeira de Cuncos River deltas, since the beginning of the 1801 occupation of Olivenza by Spain. This territory, though under de facto Spanish occupation, remains a de jure part of Portugal, consequently no border is henceforth recognised in this area.
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History of Portugal
The history of Portugal can be traced from circa 400,000 years ago, when the region of present-day Portugal was inhabited by Homo heidelbergensis.
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Juromenha
Juromenha is a town in southeastern Portugal, near the border with Spain.
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Lacobriga
Lacobriga (Laccobriga or Lacóbriga (Lacobrica in Latin)) was an ancient town of Celtic origin, usually identified as the predecessor of the current city of Lagos in Portugal.
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Lagos, Portugal
Lagos (literally lakes; Lacobriga) is a municipality at the mouth of Bensafrim River and along the Atlantic Ocean, in the Barlavento region of the Algarve, in southern Portugal.
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Lamego
Lamego (Lamecum) is a city and municipality in the Viseu District, in the Norte Region of the Douro in northern Portugal.
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Leiria
Leiria (ɸlāryo) is a city and a municipality in the Centro Region of Portugal.
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Lima river
The Lima River (Lima in Portuguese and Limia in Spanish) is a river, which streams westward from Galicia in Spain) to Portugal, with a length of. The source of the Limia is Talariño Mountain at above sea level, close to the Paradiña village in the Sarreaus municipality (Ourense, Spain). In Spain, it extends for 41 km and it is known by many regional names such as Alariño, Freixo or Mourenzo, however the official term in Galicia is Limia. It crosses the border into Portugal close to the Lindoso village, crosses Ponte da Barca, Ponte de Lima and reaches the Atlantic in Viana do Castelo. The Romans identified the Lima with the mythical Lethe.
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Lisbon
Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and the largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 552,700, Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2.
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List of Celtic place names in Italy
The Celtic toponymy of Italy are the place names that, through the reconstruction of the historical and linguistic origin, are attributed to language of Celts allocated once in Italy, between the northern regions and in some areas of central Italy.
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List of Latin place names in Iberia
This list includes countries and regions in the Iberian Peninsula (Latin Hispania) that were part of the Roman Empire, or that were given Latin place names in historical references.
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Lusitania
Lusitania (Lusitânia; Lusitania) or Hispania Lusitana was an ancient Iberian Roman province located where most of modern Portugal (south of the Douro river) and part of western Spain (the present autonomous community of Extremadura and a part of the province of Salamanca) lie.
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Lusitanians
The Lusitanians (or Lusitani) were an Indo-European people living in the west of the Iberian Peninsula prior to its conquest by the Roman Republic and the subsequent incorporation of the territory into the Roman province of Lusitania (most of modern Portugal, Extremadura and a small part of the province of Salamanca).
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Mangualde
Mangualde is a municipality in the subregion of Dão-Lafões (historical Beira Interior), central region of Portugal.
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Marcelo Freixo
Marcelo Ribeiro Freixo is a Brazilian politician, broadcaster and professor.
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Marvão
Marvão is a municipality in Portalegre District in Portugal.
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Minho (river)
Minho (Miniu) or Miño is the longest river in Galicia, sharing the border with Portugal, with a length of.
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Miróbriga
Miróbriga (Mirobriga Celticorum) is an ancient Roman town located near the village and civil parish of Santiago do Cacém, in the municipality of the same name in the south-west of Portugal.
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Montalegre
Montalegre is a municipality in northern Portugal, located in the district of Vila Real, along the border with Spain.
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Norte Region, Portugal
Norte (Região Norte,; "North Region") or Northern Portugal is the most populous region in Portugal, ahead of Lisboa, and the third most extensive by area.
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Póvoa de Varzim
Póvoa de Varzim, also spelled Povoa de Varzim, is a Portuguese city in Northern Portugal and sub-region of Greater Porto.
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Ponte da Barca
Ponte da Barca is a municipality in the district of Viana do Castelo in Portugal.
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Ponte de Lima
Ponte de Lima, is the oldest vila (chartered town, head of a municipality) in Portugal.
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Portus Cale
Portus Cale (Latinised version for "Port of Cale", original Celtic name Callaici, Cale) was an ancient town and port in current-day northern Portugal, in the area of today's Grande Porto.
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Roman province
In Ancient Rome, a province (Latin: provincia, pl. provinciae) was the basic and, until the Tetrarchy (from 293 AD), the largest territorial and administrative unit of the empire's territorial possessions outside Italy.
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Santarém, Portugal
Santarém is a city and municipality located in the district of Santarém in Portugal.
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Sesimbra
Sesimbra is a municipality of Portugal, in the Setúbal District, lying at the foothills of the Serra da Arrábida, a mountain range between Setúbal and Sesimbra.
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Setúbal
Setúbal (or; Caetobrix) is a city and a municipality in Portugal.
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Tâmega (river)
The Tâmega (Tamaca) or Támega is a river in Galicia, Spain and Portugal.
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Toponymy
Toponymy is the study of place names (toponyms), their origins, meanings, use, and typology.
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Torrão
Torrão is a civil parish and town, in the municipality of Alcácer do Sal, in the Portuguese district of Setúbal, bordering on the districts of Évora and the Beja.
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Vale de Cambra
Vale de Cambra (Cambra) is a city and a municipality in Portugal.
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Vila Nova de Foz Côa
Vila Nova de Foz Côa is a city and a municipality in the district of Guarda, Portugal.
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Vila Nova de Gaia
Vila Nova de Gaia, or simply Gaia (Cale) is a city and a municipality in Porto District in Norte Region, Portugal.
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Vila Real
Vila Real is a municipality and simultaneously the capital and largest city of the Vila Real District, northern Portugal.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Celtic_place_names_in_Portugal
