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| 1 | Santarém, Portugal ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 108 Lat/Lng : 39.2358 / -8.6864 | Santarém is a city and municipality located in the district of Santarém in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 61,752,excluding the parish Pombalinho, that changed from the municipality of Santarém to Golegã in 2013 in an area of 552.54 km². The population of the city proper was 29,929 in 2012 (...) | |
| 2 | Ceuta ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 35.8883 / -5.3156 | Ceuta (or). Oxford Dictionaries. is an Spanish autonomous city on the north coast of Africa, separated by from Cadiz province on the Spanish mainland by the Strait of Gibraltar and sharing a land border with M'diq-Fnideq Prefecture in the Kingdom of Morocco (...) | |
| 3 | Palma de Mallorca ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 39.5714 / 2.6517 | Palma de Mallorca, since December 2016 PalmaSince December 2016 the city is officially "Palma", (or), is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. It is situated on the south coast of Mallorca on the Bay of Palma (...) | |
| 4 | Ribatejo Province ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 107 Lat/Lng : 39.2333 / -8.6833 | The Ribatejo is the most central of the traditional provinces of Portugal, with no coastline or border with Spain. The region is crossed by the Tagus River (Ribatejo translates to "upper Tagus", or more precisely, "up the Tagus" relative to Lisbon at its mouth) (...) | |
| 5 | Sintra ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 230 Lat/Lng : 38.798 / -9.381 | Sintra is a city and municipality in the Greater Lisbon region of Portugal, located on the Portuguese Riviera. The population of the municipality in 2011 was 377,835, in an area of . Sintra is a major tourist destination in Portugal, famed for its picturesqueness and for its numerous historic (...) | |
| 6 | Leiria ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 33 Lat/Lng : 39.7432 / -8.8063 | Leiria is a city and a municipality in the Centro Region of Portugal. It is the capital of Leiria District. The population in 2011 was 126,879, in an area of . It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Leiria-Fátima. (...) | |
| 7 | Giralda ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 37.3863 / -5.9926 | The Giralda is the bell tower of the Seville Cathedral in Seville, Spain. It was originally built as the minaret for the Great Mosque of Seville in al-Andalus, Moorish Spain, during the reign of the Almohad dynasty, with a Renaissance-style top subsequently added by the Catholics after the expulsion (...) | |
| 8 | Portugal ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 38.7 / -9.1833 | Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic ,In recognized minority languages of Portugal: :* is a country located mostly on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe. It is the westernmost sovereign state of mainland Europe (...) | |
| 9 | Coimbra ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 40.2111 / -8.4292 | Coimbra 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 and the Centro Region (...) | |
| 10 | Tagus ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1573 Lat/Lng : 40.3197 / -1.6975 | The Tagus is the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula. It is long, in Spain, along the border between Portugal and Spain and in Portugal, where it empties into the Atlantic Ocean near Lisbon. It drains an area of (the second largest in the Iberian peninsula after the Douro) (...) | |
| 11 | Azores ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 20 Lat/Lng : 37.7411 / -25.6756 | The Azores (or ;), officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores , is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal (along with Madeira (Região Autónoma da Madeira). It is an archipelago composed of nine volcanic islands in the North Atlantic Ocean about west of continental Portugal, about west of (...) | |
| 12 | Lusitania ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 210 Lat/Lng : 38.7689 / -7.2181 | Lusitania or Hispania Lusitana was an ancient Iberian Roman province located where 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 (...) | |
| 13 | Pará ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 156 Lat/Lng : -3.95 / -53.09 | Pará is a state in northern Brazil traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of (clockwise from north) Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas and Roraima. To the northwest it borders Guyana and Suriname; to the northeast it borders the Atlantic Ocean (...) | |
| 14 | Tomar ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 71 Lat/Lng : 39.6042 / -8.4083 | Tomar , also known in English as Thomar, is a city and a municipality in Santarém District in Portugal. The town proper has a population of about 20,000. The municipality population in 2011 was 40,677, in an area of 351.20 km² (...) | |
| 15 | Igreja da Graça (Santarém) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 105 Lat/Lng : 39.2347 / -8.6803 | Igreja da Graça is a church in Portugal. It is classified as a National Monument. | |
| 16 | Azambuja ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 39.0667 / -8.8667 | Azambuja is a municipality in the Portuguese district of Lisbon, in the historical region of Ribatejo (and the sole municipality of within the district that does not belong to the historical province of Estremadura). The population in 2011 was 21,814, in an area of 262.66 km² (...) | |
| 17 | Hermopolis ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 48 Lat/Lng : 27.7814 / 30.8039 | Hermopolis(Ammianus Marcellinus, II 16) (Hermoû pólis "the City of Hermes", also Hermopolis Magna, Hermoû pólis megálẽ,"Great Hermopolis", for distinction with Lesser Hermopolis, e.g. Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. ; Ptolemy IV 5. § 60. Antonine Itinerary pp. 154f (...) | |
| 18 | Vila Real ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 432 Lat/Lng : 41.2958 / -7.7461 | Vila Real is the capital and largest city of the Vila Real District, northern Portugal. The population in 2011 was 51,850, in an area of . Vila Real was ranked seventh in the list of Portugal's most livable cities in the survey of living conditions published by the Portuguese newspaper Expresso in (...) | |
| 19 | Badajoz ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 184 Lat/Lng : 38.8833 / -6.9667 | Badajoz (; formerly written Badajos in English) is the capital of the Province of Badajoz in the autonomous community of Extremadura, Spain. It is situated close to the Portuguese border, on the left bank of the river Guadiana. The population in 2011 was 151,565 (...) | |
| 20 | Almeirim ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 39.2 / -8.6167 | Almeirim is a city and a municipality in Santarém District, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 23,376, in an area of 222.12 km². The city proper had a population of 10,520 in 2001. Nuno Pires Soares, Instituto Geográfico Português (Geographic Institute of Portugal) (...) | |
| 21 | Madeira River ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : -3.3756 / -58.7731 | The Madeira River is a major waterway in South America, approximately long.. (encyclopedia). Accessed May 2011. The Madeira is the biggest tributary of the Amazon, accounting for about 15% of the water in the basin (...) | |
| 22 | Caldas da Rainha ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 55 Lat/Lng : 39.4072 / -9.1358 | Caldas da Rainha is a medium-sized city in western central Portugal in the historical province of Estremadura and the district of Leiria. The city serves as the seat of the larger municipality of the same name and of the Comunidade Intermunicipal do Oeste (OesteCIM, Intermunicipal Community of the (...) | |
| 23 | Amazon River ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : -1.9185 / -55.5185 | The Amazon River (; Spanish and) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and by some definitions it is the longest. The headwaters of the Apurímac River on Nevado Mismi had been considered for nearly a century as the Amazon's most distant source, until a 2014 (...) | |
| 24 | Marvão ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 825 Lat/Lng : 39.3942 / -7.3767 | Marvão is a municipality in Portalegre District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 3,512, in an area of 154.90 km². The present Mayor is Luís Vitorino, elected by the Social Democratic Party. The municipal holiday is September 8 (...) | |
| 25 | Kingdom of Galicia ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 273 Lat/Lng : 42.8825 / -8.5411 | The Kingdom of Galicia (or Galiza; ; ;) was a political entity located in southwestern Europe, which at its territorial zenith occupied the entire northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Founded by Suebic king Hermeric in 409, the Galician capital was established in Braga, being the first kingdom which (...) | |
| 26 | Portuguese Cortes ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 467 Lat/Lng : 41.1 / -7.8 | In the Medieval Kingdom of Portugal, the Cortes was an assembly of representatives of the estates of the realm - the nobility, clergy and bourgeoisie. It was called and dismissed by the King of Portugal at will, at a place of his choosing.O'Callaghan, J.F (...) | |
| 27 | Volta ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 196 Lat/Lng : 7.0 / 0.5 | Volta may refer to: (...) | |
| 28 | Alcanede ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 79 Lat/Lng : 39.4139 / -8.8233 | Alcanede is a civil parish in the municipality of Santarém, in the district of the same name, of the Ribatejo. The population in 2011 was 4,547,, Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal in an area of 105.84 km² (...) | |
| 29 | Inland port ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 109 Lat/Lng : 43.89 / -78.86 | An inland port is a port on an inland waterway, such as a river, lake, or canal, which may or may not be connected to the ocean. The term "inland port" is also used to refer to a dry port, which is an inland extension of a seaport, usually connected by rail to the docks (...) | |
| 30 | São João (Abrantes) ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 88 Lat/Lng : 39.4575 / -8.1942 | São João, or São João Baptista, is a former freguesia ("civil parish"), located in the municipality of Abrantes, in Santarém District, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Abrantes (São Vicente e São João) e Alferrarede. The population in 2011 was 1,699, in an area of 2.21 km² (...) | |
| 31 | Zibreira ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 148 Lat/Lng : 39.5057 / -8.6157 | Zibreira is a civil parish in Portugal, located within the municipality of Torres Novas, in the Santarém District. It is noted for the Aroeria cave, where the Aroeira 3 skull of a 400,000 year old Homo Heidelbergensis was found, being the oldest trace of human history in Portugal (...) | |
| 32 | Battle of Albuera ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 238 Lat/Lng : 38.7167 / -6.8167 | The Battle of Albuera (16 May 1811) was a battle during the Peninsular War. A mixed British, Spanish and Portuguese corps engaged elements of the French Armée du Midi (Army of the South) at the small Spanish village of Albuera, about 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of the frontier fortress-town of (...) | |
| 33 | Annobón ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 209 Lat/Lng : -1.4167 / 5.6333 | Annobón is a small province of Equatorial Guinea consisting of the island of Annobón and its associated islets in the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean's Cameroon line. The provincial capital is San Antonio de Palé on the north side of the island; the other town is Mabana, formerly known as San (...) | |
| 34 | Battle of Toro ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 731 Lat/Lng : 41.5256 / -5.3911 | The Battle of Toro was a royal battle from the War of the Castilian Succession, fought on 1 March 1476, near the city of Toro, between the Castilian troops of the Catholic Monarchs and the Portuguese-Castilian forces of Afonso V and Prince John (...) | |
| 35 | Portugal Day ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 996 Lat/Lng : 40.5333 / -7.2667 | Portugal Day, officially Day of Portugal, Camões, and the Portuguese Communities , is Portugal's National Day celebrated annually on June 10th. Although officially observed only in Portugal, Portuguese citizens and emigrants throughout the world celebrate this holiday (...) | |
| 36 | Battle of the Gebora ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 181 Lat/Lng : 38.879 / -6.967 | The Battle of the Gebora was a battle of the Peninsular War between Spanish and French armies. It took place on 19 February 1811, near Badajoz, Spain, where an outnumbered French force routed and nearly destroyed the Spanish Army of Extremadura (...) | |
| 37 | Battle of Évora (1808) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 309 Lat/Lng : 38.5714 / -7.9086 | The Battle of Évora (29 July 1808) saw an Imperial French division under Louis Henri Loison attack a combined Portuguese-Spanish force led by Francisco de Paula Leite de Sousa. Encountering Leite's smaller body of soldiers outside Évora, the French easily brushed them aside and went on to storm the (...) | |
| 38 | Pan Am Flight 202 ![]() FeatureType : event Elevation : 213 Lat/Lng : -9.752 / -50.7842 | Pan American World Airways Flight 202 was a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser aircraft that crashed in the Amazon Basin about southwest of Carolina, Brazil on April 29, 1952. The accident happened en route from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, during the third leg of a four-leg (...) | |
| 39 | Atlantic Europe ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 100 Lat/Lng : 48.0 / -2.0 | Atlantic Europe is a geographical and anthropological term for the western portion of Europe which borders the Atlantic Ocean. The term may refer to the idea of Atlantic Europe as a cultural unit and/or as an biogeographical region (...) | |
| 40 | National Archaeology Museum (Portugal) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 11 Lat/Lng : 38.6973 / -9.2071 | The National Museum of Archaeology is the largest Archaeological museum in Portugal and one of the most important museums in the world devoted to ancient art found in the Iberian Peninsula. Located in Lisbon, the museum was founded in 1893 by the archaeologist José Leite de Vasconcelos (...) | |
| 41 | Ferreira ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 336 Lat/Lng : 41.2672 / -8.3443 | __NOTOC__ Ferreira may refer to: (...) | |
| 42 | Estremadura Province (historical) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 51 Lat/Lng : 39.25 / -9.1667 | Estremadura Province (Portuguese pronunciation: ]) is one of the six historical provinces of Portugal. It is located along the Atlantic Ocean coast in the center of the country and includes Lisbon, the capital. The name of this province (and also the Spanish Extramadura) originates from the Spanish (...) | |
| 43 | Battle of Saltes Island ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 37.1961 / -6.9394 | The naval Battle of Saltes Island or Battle of Saltes (Spanish: Batalla de la Isla Saltés) took place on 17 July 1381, off Saltes Island, between the Crown of Castile and the Kingdom of Portugal during the Third Ferdinand War (...) | |
| 44 | Castle of San Jorge ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 37.3858 / -6.0033 | The Castle of San Jorge was a medieval fortress built on the west bank of the Guadalquivir river in the Spanish city of Seville (Spain). It was also used as headquarters and prison for the Spanish Inquisition. It was demolished in the 19th century and made into a food market (...) | |
| 45 | Shrine of Our Lady of Africa ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 67 Lat/Lng : 35.8856 / -5.3296 | The Church of Santa María de África is a Roman Catholic church in the Spanish city of Ceuta which is located in a small Spanish exclave on the north coast of Africa. (...) | |
| 46 | Póvoa de Varzim Bullfighting Arena ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 41.3873 / -8.7706 | Póvoa de Varzim Bullfighting Arena (Monumental Praça de Touros da Póvoa de Varzim) is a bullring (Portuguese: Praça de Touros) in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. It is located in Avenida Vasco da Gama avenue, in the northern waterfront of the city (...) | |