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59 relations: Alans, Almourol, Bartizan, Battlement, Castle, Castles in Portugal, Castro culture, Centro Region, Portugal, Chemin de ronde, Christianity, Christmas, Circa, Common Era, Convent of Christ (Tomar), Courtyard, Direção-Geral do Património Cultural, Easter, Floruit, Gothic architecture, Granite, Gualdim Pais, History of Portugal, Iberian Peninsula, Islet, Keep, Knights Templar, Lintel, Lisbon District, List of national monuments of Portugal, List of parishes of Portugal, Lusitania, Marble, Masonry, May Day, Médio Tejo Subregion, Middle Ages, Moorish architecture, Moors, New Year, Order of Christ (Portugal), Pavement (architecture), Portugal, Portuguese nobility, Reconquista, Redoubt, Revivalism (architecture), Roman Empire, Romanesque architecture, Romanticism, Ruins, ..., Tagus, Tancos, Traitors' Gate, Vila Nova da Barquinha, Visigoths, Wharf, Zêzere River, 12th century, 19th century. Expand index (9 more) »
Alans
The Alans (or Alani) were an Iranian nomadic pastoral people of antiquity.
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Almourol
Almourol is a small islet in the middle of the Tagus river in the civil parish of Praia do Ribatejo, located in Portugal's Center Region.
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Bartizan
A bartizan, (an alteration of bratticing), also called a guerite or échauguette, or spelled bartisan, is an overhanging, wall-mounted turret projecting from the walls of late medieval and early-modern fortifications from the early 14th century up to the 18th century.
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Battlement
A battlement in defensive architecture, such as that of city walls or castles, comprises a parapet (i.e., a defensive low wall between chest-height and head-height), in which gaps or indentations, which are often rectangular, occur at intervals to allow for the launch of arrows or other projectiles from within the defences.
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Castle
A castle (from castellum) is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages by predominantly the nobility or royalty and by military orders.
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Castles in Portugal
Castles in Portugal were crucial components of the military across history.
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Castro culture
Castro culture (cultura castrexa, cultura castreja, cultura castriega, cultura castreña) is the archaeological term for the material Celtic culture of the north-western regions of the Iberian Peninsula (present-day northern Portugal together with Galicia, Asturias, Castile and León, Cantabria and Basque Country) from the end of the Bronze Age (c. 9th century BC) until it was subsumed by Roman culture (c. 1st century BC).
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Centro Region, Portugal
The Centro Region (Região Centro) is a region in central Portugal.
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Chemin de ronde
A chemin de ronde (French, "round path"' or "patrol path")—also called an allure, alure or, more prosaically, a wall-walk—is a raised protected walkway behind a castle battlement.
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Christianity
ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.
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Christmas
Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ,Martindale, Cyril Charles.
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Circa
Circa, usually abbreviated c., ca. or ca (also circ. or cca.), means "approximately" in several European languages (and as a loanword in English), usually in reference to a date.
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Common Era
Common Era or Current Era (CE) is one of the notation systems for the world's most widely used calendar era – an alternative to the Dionysian AD and BC system.
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Convent of Christ (Tomar)
The Convent of Christ (Convento de Cristo/Mosteiro de Cristo) is a former Roman Catholic convent in Tomar, Portugal.
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Courtyard
A courtyard or court is a circumscribed area, often surrounded by a building or complex, that is open to the sky.
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Direção-Geral do Património Cultural
The Direção-Geral do Património Cultural (DGPC), formerly Instituto de Gestão do Património Arquitectónico e Arqueológico (IGESPAR) and Instituto Português do Património Arquitectónico (IPPAR), (Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage) is a Directorate-General of Government of Portugal tasked with the conservation, preservation, and inventory of Portuguese architectural heritage.
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Easter
Easter,Traditional names for the feast in English are "Easter Day", as in the Book of Common Prayer, "Easter Sunday", used by James Ussher and Samuel Pepys and plain "Easter", as in books printed in,, also called Pascha (Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial after his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary 30 AD.
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Floruit
Floruit, abbreviated fl. (or occasionally, flor.), Latin for "he/she flourished", denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active.
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Gothic architecture
Gothic architecture is an architectural style that flourished in Europe during the High and Late Middle Ages.
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Granite
Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture.
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Gualdim Pais
Dom Gualdim Pais (1118 – 13 October 1195), a Portuguese crusader, Knight Templar in the service of Afonso Henriques of Portugal.
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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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Iberian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula, also known as Iberia, is located in the southwest corner of Europe.
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Islet
An islet is a very small island.
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Keep
A keep (from the Middle English kype) is a type of fortified tower built within castles during the Middle Ages by European nobility.
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Knights Templar
The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Salomonici), also known as the Order of Solomon's Temple, the Knights Templar or simply as Templars, were a Catholic military order recognised in 1139 by papal bull Omne Datum Optimum of the Holy See.
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Lintel
A lintel or lintol is a structural horizontal block that spans the space or opening between two vertical supports.
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Lisbon District
Lisbon District (Distrito de Lisboa) is a district located in the South Central Portugal, the district capital is the city of Lisbon, also the national capital.
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List of national monuments of Portugal
The national monuments of Portugal (Monumentos Nacionais) were constructed throughout the Portuguese territory, and date back to the period of pre-historic settlement of occupation.
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List of parishes of Portugal
The 3092 civil parishes (Portuguese: freguesias) of Portugal are listed In alphabetic groups (determined by a parish's first letter) in the template below.
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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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Marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite.
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Masonry
Masonry is the building of structures from individual units, which are often laid in and bound together by mortar; the term masonry can also refer to the units themselves.
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May Day
May Day is a public holiday usually celebrated on 1 May.
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Médio Tejo Subregion
Médio Tejo is a NUTS3 subregion of the Centro Region of Portugal.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.
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Moorish architecture
Moorish architecture is the articulated Islamic architecture of North Africa and parts of Spain and Portugal (Al Andalus), where the Andalusians (Moors) were dominant between 711 and 1492.
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Moors
The term "Moors" refers primarily to the Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, and Malta during the Middle Ages.
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New Year
New Year is the time or day at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year count increments by one.
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Order of Christ (Portugal)
The Military Order of Christ (Ordem Militar de Cristo), previously the Order of the Knights of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Ordem dos Cavaleiros de Nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo), was the former Knights Templar order as it was reconstituted in Portugal after the Templars were abolished on 22 March 1312 by the papal bull, Vox in excelso, issued by Pope Clement V. The Order of Christ was founded in 1319, with the protection of the Portuguese king, Denis I, who refused to pursue and persecute the former knights as had occurred in all the other sovereign states under the political influence of the Catholic Church.
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Pavement (architecture)
Pavement, in construction, is an outdoor floor or superficial surface covering.
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Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa),In recognized minority languages of Portugal: Portugal is the oldest state in the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times.
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Portuguese nobility
The Portuguese nobility was the class of legally privileged and titled persons (nobility) recognized by the Kingdom of Portugal.
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Reconquista
The Reconquista (Spanish and Portuguese for the "reconquest") is a name used to describe the period in the history of the Iberian Peninsula of about 780 years between the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in 711 and the fall of the Nasrid kingdom of Granada to the expanding Christian kingdoms in 1492.
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Redoubt
A redoubt (historically redout) is a fort or fort system usually consisting of an enclosed defensive emplacement outside a larger fort, usually relying on earthworks, although some are constructed of stone or brick.
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Revivalism (architecture)
Revivalism in architecture is the use of visual styles that consciously echo the style of a previous architectural era.
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Roman Empire
The Roman Empire (Imperium Rōmānum,; Koine and Medieval Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, tr.) was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia.
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Romanesque architecture
Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe characterized by semi-circular arches.
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Romanticism
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.
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Ruins
Ruins are the remains of human-made architecture: structures that were once intact have fallen, as time went by, into a state of partial or total disrepair, due to lack of maintenance or deliberate acts of destruction.
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Tagus
The Tagus (Tajo,; Tejo) is the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula.
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Tancos
Tancos is a Portuguese freguesia ("civil parish"), located in the municipality of Vila Nova da Barquinha.
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Traitors' Gate
The Traitor's Gate is an entrance through which many prisoners of the Tudors arrived at the Tower of London.
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Vila Nova da Barquinha
Vila Nova da Barquinha is a municipality in the district of Santarém in Portugal.
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Visigoths
The Visigoths (Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, Wisi; Visigoti) were the western branches of the nomadic tribes of Germanic peoples referred to collectively as the Goths.
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Wharf
A wharf, quay (also), staith or staithe is a structure on the shore of a harbor or on the bank of a river or canal where ships may dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
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Zêzere River
The Zêzere is a river in Portugal, tributary to the Tagus.
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12th century
The 12th century is the period from 1101 to 1200 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Common Era.
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19th century
The 19th century was a century that began on January 1, 1801, and ended on December 31, 1900.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_of_Almourol
