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Caminha, the Glossary

Caminha is a municipality in the north-west of Portugal, 21 km north from Viana do Castelo, located in the Viana do Castelo District.^[1]

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Municipalities of Viana do Castelo District

Afonso III of Portugal

Afonso III (rare English alternatives: Alphonzo or Alphonse), or Affonso (Archaic Portuguese), Alfonso or Alphonso (Portuguese-Galician) or Alphonsus (Latin), the Boulonnais (Port. o Bolonhês), King of Portugal (5 May 121016 February 1279) was the first to use the title King of Portugal and the Algarve, from 1249.

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Alto Minho

The Comunidade Intermunicipal do Alto Minho is an administrative division in northern Portugal.

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Arabs

The Arabs (عَرَب, DIN 31635:, Arabic pronunciation), also known as the Arab people (الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ), are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Camino de Santiago

The Camino de Santiago (Peregrinatio Compostellana,; O Camiño de Santiago), or in English the Way of St.

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County

A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL.

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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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Easter Monday

Easter Monday is the second day of Eastertide and a public holiday in some countries.

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Ferdinand I of Portugal

Ferdinand I (Fernando; 31 October 1345 – 22 October 1383), sometimes called the Handsome (o Formoso) or occasionally the Inconstant (o Inconstante), was the King of Portugal from 1367 until his death in 1383.

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Foral

Foral of Castro Verde - Portugal The Carta de Foral, or simply Foral, was a royal document in Portugal and its former empire, whose purpose was to establish a concelho (Council) and regulate its administration, borders and privileges.

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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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Galicia (Spain)

Galicia (Galicia (officially) or Galiza; Galicia) is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law.

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Gallaecia

Gallaecia, 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 Kingdom of Gallaecia.

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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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Ilídio Silva

Ilídio Silva (23 January 1932 – before 2018) was a Portuguese rower.

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Islet

An islet is a very small, often unnamed island.

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João Lourenço Rebelo

João Lourenço Rebelo, or João Soares Rebelo (1610 – 16 November 1661) was the only Portuguese composer to adopt the Venetian polychoral style.

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John IV of Portugal

Dom John IV (João,; 19 March 1604 – 6 November 1656), nicknamed John the Restorer (João, o Restaurador), was the King of Portugal whose reign, lasting from 1640 until his death, began the Portuguese restoration of independence from Habsburg Spanish rule.

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Jorge Cravinho

Jorge Cravinho (born 27 October 1933) is a Portuguese rower.

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José Porto

José Porto (born 5 January 1933) is a Portuguese rower.

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José Vieira (rower)

José Vieira (born 22 October 1932) is a Portuguese rower.

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Keep

A keep is a type of fortified tower built within castles during the Middle Ages by European nobility.

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Kingdom of Castile

The Kingdom of Castile (Reino de Castilla: Regnum Castellae) was a polity in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages.

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Kingdom of Galicia

The Kingdom of Galicia (Reino de Galicia, or Galiza; Reino de Galicia; Reino da Galiza; Galliciense Regnum) was a political entity located in southwestern Europe, which at its territorial zenith occupied the entire northwest of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Manuel I of Portugal

Manuel I (31 May 146913 December 1521), known as the Fortunate (O Venturoso), was King of Portugal from 1495 to 1521.

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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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Minho (river)

The Minho or Miño (Miniu) is the longest river in the autonomous community of Galicia in Spain, with a length of.

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Monção

Monção is a municipality in the district of Viana do Castelo in Portugal. Caminha and Monção are Municipalities of Viana do Castelo District.

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Mudéjar

Mudéjar were Muslims who remained in Iberia in the late medieval period following the Christian reconquest.

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Normans

The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Nortmanni/Normanni) were a population arising in the medieval Duchy of Normandy from the intermingling between Norse Viking settlers and locals of West Francia.

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North Region, Portugal

The North Region (Região do Norte) or Northern Portugal is the most populous region in Portugal, ahead of Lisbon, and the third most extensive by area.

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Phoenicia

Phoenicia, or Phœnicia, was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization originating in the coastal strip of the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon.

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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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Portuguese language

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Portuguese Renaissance

The Portuguese Renaissance refers to the cultural and artistic movement in Portugal during the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Portuguese Way

The Portuguese Way (Caminho Português, Camino Portugués) is the name of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage routes starting in Portugal.

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President of Portugal

The president of Portugal, officially the president of the Portuguese Republic (Presidente da República Portuguesa), is the head of state and highest office of Portugal.

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Renaissance architecture

Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture.

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Rowing at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's coxed four

The men's coxed four competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics took place at Lake Albano, Italy.

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Rui Valença

Rui Valença (born 28 September 1932) is a Portuguese rower.

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Shoal

In oceanography, geomorphology, and geoscience, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material, and rises from the bed of a body of water close to the surface or above it, which poses a danger to navigation.

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Sidónio Pais

Sidónio Bernardino Cardoso da Silva Pais (1 May 1872 – 14 December 1918) was a Portuguese politician, military officer, and diplomat, who served as the fourth president of the First Portuguese Republic in 1918.

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The Socialist Party (Partido Socialista,, PS) is a social-democratic political party in Portugal.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caminha

Also known as Caminha Municipality, Caminha, Portugal.

Caminha, the Glossary

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See also

Municipalities of Viana do Castelo District

References