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Alcobaça, Portugal, the Glossary

Alcobaça is a Portuguese city and municipality in the intermunicipal community Oeste and the region Oeste e Vale do Tejo, in the historical province of Estremadura, and in the Leiria District.^[1]

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Iberian locality names of Arabic origin
Municipalities of Leiria District
Populated places in Leiria District
Populated places in Oeste e Vale do Tejo
World Heritage Sites in Portugal

Afonso I of Portugal

Afonso IOr also Affonso (Archaic Portuguese-Galician) or Alphonso (Portuguese-Galician) or Alphonsus (Latin version), sometimes rendered in English as Alphonzo or Alphonse, depending on the Spanish or French influence.

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Afonso IV of Portugal

Afonso IVEnglish: Alphonzo or Alphonse, or Affonso (Archaic Portuguese), Alfonso or Alphonso (Portuguese-Galician) or Alphonsus (Latin).

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Aire and Candeeiros Ranges Natural Park

The Aire and Candeeiros Ranges Natural Park (in Portuguese, Parque Natural das Serras de Aire e Candeeiros, or PNSAC) is a natural park in the Central-West region of Portugal.

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Alberto Costa (Portuguese politician)

Alberto Bernardes Costa (born in Alcobaça, 1947) was the Portuguese Minister of Justice (Ministro da Justiça) from 12 March 2005 to 26 October 2009.

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Alcoa River

The Alcoa is a river of Portugal, flowing into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Alcobaça Monastery

The Alcobaça Monastery or Alcobasa Monastery (Mosteiro de Alcobaça, Mosteiro de Santa Maria de Alcobaça) is a Catholic monastic complex located in the town of Alcobaça (or Alcobasa), in central Portugal, north of Lisbon and south of Coimbra. Alcobaça, Portugal and Alcobaça Monastery are UNESCO and World Heritage Sites in Portugal.

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Alcobaça wine

Alcobaça is a Portuguese wine region centered on the town of Alcobaça in the Estremadura region.

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Alfeizerão

Alfeizerão is a freguesia ("civil parish") in the municipality of Alcobaça, Portugal.

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Aljubarrota

Aljubarrota is a freguesia ("civil parish") in the municipality of Alcobaça, Portugal.

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Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa.

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Aubergenville

Aubergenville is a commune in the Yvelines department in north-central France.

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Évora de Alcobaça

Évora de Alcobaça is a freguesia ("civil parish") in the municipality of Alcobaça, Portugal.

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Óbidos, Portugal

Óbidos (Eburobrittium) is a town and a municipality in the Oeste region, historical province of Estremadura and the Leiria district. Alcobaça, Portugal and Óbidos, Portugal are municipalities of Leiria District and Populated places in Oeste e Vale do Tejo.

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Batalha Monastery

The Monastery of Batalha (Mosteiro da Batalha) is a Dominican convent in the municipality of Batalha, historical Beira Litoral province, in the Centro of Portugal. Alcobaça, Portugal and Batalha Monastery are World Heritage Sites in Portugal.

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Batalha, Portugal

Batalha is a town and a municipality in historical Beira Litoral province, and Leiria district in the Centro of Portugal. Alcobaça, Portugal and Batalha, Portugal are municipalities of Leiria District and Populated places in Leiria District.

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Battle of Aljubarrota

The Battle of Aljubarrota (see Aljubarrota) was fought between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Crown of Castile on 14 August 1385.

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Bełchatów

Bełchatów is a city in central Poland with a population of 55,583, as of December 2021.

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Benedita, Portugal

Benedita is a town and parish in the Portuguese municipality of Alcobaça and in the Oeste region.

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Bernard of Clairvaux

Bernard of Clairvaux, O. Cist. (Bernardus Claraevallensis; 109020 August 1153), venerated as Saint Bernard, was an abbot, mystic, co-founder of the Knights Templar, and a major leader in the reformation of the Benedictine Order through the nascent Cistercian Order.

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Bragança, Portugal

Bragança (Bergáncia), also known in English as Braganza (also), is a city and municipality in north-eastern Portugal, capital of the district of Bragança, in the Terras de Trás-os-Montes subregion of Portugal. Alcobaça, Portugal and Bragança, Portugal are Cities in Portugal.

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Cacuaco

Cacuaco is a city and one of the nine municipalities that make up the province of Luanda.

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Caldas da Rainha

Caldas da Rainha is a medium-sized Portuguese city in the Oeste region, in the historical province of Estremadura, and in the district of Leiria. Alcobaça, Portugal and Caldas da Rainha are Cities in Portugal, municipalities of Leiria District, Populated places in Leiria District and Populated places in Oeste e Vale do Tejo.

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Carnival

Carnival or Shrovetide is a festive season that occurs at the close of the Christian pre-Lenten period, consisting of Quinquagesima or Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras.

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Cela, Alcobaça

Cela is a freguesia (civil parish) in the municipality of Alcobaça, Portugal.

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Chicopee, Massachusetts

Chicopee is a city located on the Connecticut River in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Cistercians

The Cistercians, officially the Order of Cistercians ((Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint Benedict, as well as the contributions of the highly-influential Bernard of Clairvaux, known as the Latin Rule.

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Coimbra

Coimbra (also,, or) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. Alcobaça, Portugal and Coimbra are Cities in Portugal.

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Conquest of Santarém

The conquest of Santarém took place on 15 March 1147, when the troops of the Kingdom of Portugal under the leadership of Afonso I of Portugal captured the Taifa of Badajoz city of Santarém (at the time called Shantarin).

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Crown of Castile

The Crown of Castile was a medieval polity in the Iberian Peninsula that formed in 1230 as a result of the third and definitive union of the crowns and, some decades later, the parliaments of the kingdoms of Castile and León upon the accession of the then Castilian king, Ferdinand III, to the vacant Leonese throne.

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Culture of Portugal

The culture of Portugal is a very rich result of a complex flow of many different civilizations during the past millennia.

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Denis of Portugal

Denis (9 October 1261 – 7 January 1325), called the Farmer King (Rei Lavrador) and the Poet King (Rei Poeta), was King of Portugal.

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Estremadura Province (1936–1976)

Estremadura Province is a historical province of Portugal.

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Fátima, Portugal

Fátima is a city in the municipality of Ourém and district of Santarém in the Oeste e Vale do Tejo Region of Portugal, with 71.29 km2 of area and 13,212 inhabitants (2021). Alcobaça, Portugal and Fátima, Portugal are Cities in Portugal.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Freguesia

(), usually translated as "parish" or "civil parish", is the third-level administrative subdivision of Portugal, as defined by the 1976 Constitution.

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Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas.

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Inês de Castro

Inês de Castro (in Castilian: Inés; 1325 – 7 January 1355) was a Galician noblewoman and courtier, best known as lover and posthumously recognized wife of King Pedro I of Portugal.

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Infante

Infante (f. infanta), also anglicised as "infant" or translated as "prince", is the title and rank given in the Iberian kingdoms of Spain (including the predecessor kingdoms of Aragon, Castile, Navarre, and León) and Portugal to the sons and daughters (infantas) of the king, regardless of age, sometimes with the exception of the heir apparent or heir presumptive to the throne who usually bears a unique princely or ducal title.

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Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera

The Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (abbreviated as IPMA) is the national meteorological, seismic, sea and atmospheric organization of Portugal.

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Intermunicipal communities of Portugal

The intermunicipal community (comunidade intermunicipal) is a type of administrative division in Portugal.

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Joaquim Ferreira Bogalho

Joaquim Ferreira Bogalho (11 December 1889 – 1 October 1977), also known as "the man of the stadium" (o homem do estádio), was the 20th president of Portuguese sports club S.L. Benfica.

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João de Matos Moura Lourenço (born 8 April 1942) is a Portuguese former footballer who played as a striker, most notably for Sporting CP.

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João Pedro Silva (triathlete)

João Pedro Lopes da Silva (born 15 May 1989) is a Portuguese professional triathlete.

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João Traquina

João Miguel Traquina André (born 29 August 1988), known as Traquina, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for S.C. Covilhã as a forward.

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John I of Portugal

John I (João ʒuˈɐ̃w̃; 11 April 1357 – 14 August 1433), also called John of Aviz, was King of Portugal from 1385 until his death in 1433.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Last Judgment

The Last Judgment, Final Judgment, Day of Reckoning, Day of Judgment, Judgment Day, Doomsday, Day of Resurrection or The Day of the Lord (translit or label) is a concept found across the Abrahamic religions and the Frashokereti of Zoroastrianism.

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Leiria District

The District of Leiria (Distrito de Leiria) is a district located in Centro region of Portugal, divided between the traditional provinces of Beira Litoral and Estremadura.

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Loto (band)

Loto are a Portuguese band from Alcobaça.

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Manueline

The Manueline (estilo manuelino), occasionally known as Portuguese late Gothic, is the sumptuous, composite Portuguese architectural style originating in the 16th century, during the Portuguese Renaissance and Age of Discoveries.

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Mediterranean climate

A Mediterranean climate, also called a dry summer climate, described by Köppen as Cs, is a temperate climate type that occurs in the lower mid-latitudes (normally 30 to 44 north and south latitude).

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Ministry of Justice (Portugal)

The Ministry of Justice (Ministério da Justiça) is the Portuguese government ministry responsible for the administration of the judiciary system.

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Moinhos Velhos Cave

The Moinhos Velhos Cave (Gruta de Moinhos Velhos), is one of the most important cave systems known in the Portuguese Estremadura Limestone Massif, with about 9 km in extension.

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Moors

The term Moor is an exonym first used by Christian Europeans to designate the Muslim populations of the Maghreb, al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula), Sicily and Malta during the Middle Ages.

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Nazaré, Portugal

Nazaré is a Portuguese town and municipality located in the Oeste region, in the historical province of Estremadura, and in the Leiria District. Alcobaça, Portugal and Nazaré, Portugal are municipalities of Leiria District and Populated places in Oeste e Vale do Tejo.

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Nuno Miguel Gonçalves

Nuno Miguel Cândido Gonçalves, better known as Nuno Gonçalves, is a Portuguese musician, composer and pianist-keyboardist, founder and band member of the Portuguese band The Gift.

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Comunidade Intermunicipal do Oeste (or; in English: Intermunicipal Community of the West) is an administrative division of Portugal, located on the country's western central coast.

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Oeste e Vale do Tejo

The Oeste e Vale do Tejo (in English: West and Tagus Valley) is a NUTS II statistical region of Portugal.

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Our Lady of Fátima

Our Lady of Fátima (Nossa Senhora de Fátima,; formally known as Our Lady of the Holy Rosary of Fátima) is a Catholic title of Mary, mother of Jesus, based on the Marian apparitions reported in 1917 by three shepherd children at the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.

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Peter I of Portugal

Peter I (Portuguese: Pedro I,; 8 April 1320 – 18 January 1367), known as the Just (o Justiceiro) or the Cruel (o Cruel), was King of Portugal from 1357 until his death.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Porto de Mós

Porto de Mós is a town and a municipality of Estremadura province in Leiria District. Alcobaça, Portugal and Porto de Mós are municipalities of Leiria District and Populated places in Leiria District.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.

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Puppetry

Puppetry is a form of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation of puppets – inanimate objects, often resembling some type of human or animal figure, that are animated or manipulated by a human called a puppeteer.

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S.L. Benfica

italic, commonly known as Benfica, is a professional football club based in Lisbon, Portugal, that competes in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football.

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Santarém, Portugal

Santarém is a portuguese city and municipality located in the district of Santarém. Alcobaça, Portugal and Santarém, Portugal are Cities in Portugal.

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São Martinho do Porto

São Martinho do Porto is a civil parish in Alcobaça Municipality and in the Oeste region of Portugal.

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Simon the Zealot

Simon the Zealot or Simon the Canaanite or Simon the Canaanean (Σίμων ὁ Κανανίτης; ⲥⲓⲙⲱⲛ ⲡⲓ-ⲕⲁⲛⲁⲛⲉⲟⲥ; ܫܡܥܘܢ ܩܢܢܝܐ) was one of the most obscure among the apostles of Jesus.

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Sister city

A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.

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The Social Democratic Party (Partido Social Democrata,; PSD) is a liberal-conservative political party in Portugal that is currently the country's ruling party.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcobaça,_Portugal

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See also

Iberian locality names of Arabic origin

Municipalities of Leiria District

Populated places in Leiria District

Populated places in Oeste e Vale do Tejo

World Heritage Sites in Portugal

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