|
ESTREMOZ , a See also:town of See also:Portugal, in the See also:district of See also:Evora, formerly included in the See also:province of See also:Alemtejo; 104 M. by See also:rail E. of See also:Lisbon, on the Casa Branca-Evora-See also:Elvas railway. Pop. (1900) 7920. Estremoz is built at the See also:base of a See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill crowned by a large dismantled citadel; its fortifications, which in the 17th See also:century accommodated 20,000 troops and rendered the town one of the See also:principal defences of the frontier, are now obsolete. There are See also:marble quarries in the neighbourhood, and the Estremoz bilhas, red earthenware jars, are used throughout Portugal as See also:water-holders and exported to See also:Spain. At Ameixial (1188) and Montes Claros, near Estremoz, the See also:Spanish were severely defeated by the Portuguese in 1663 and 1665. See also:Villa Vicosa (3841), 10 M. S.E., is a town of pre-See also:Roman origin, containing a royal See also:palace. The altars with Latin See also:inscriptions to the Iberian See also:god Endo-. vellicus, found at Villa Vicosa, are preserved in the museum of the Royal See also:Academy of Sciences, Lisbon.
End of Article: ESTREMOZ
Additional information and Comments
There are no comments yet for this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.
Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.
Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.
|
del.icio.us it!