Street in Óbidos, Portugal

Óbidos is a medieval The defensive wall of Braşov, Romania. Defensive walls were common from the ancient period into the medieval period. Generally, these are referred to as city walls or town walls, although there were also walls, such as the Great Wall of China and the Atlantic Wall, which extended far... walled town ( A vila is a town in Portugal. It does not necessarily correspond to a concelho (municipality). There are 533 towns in Portugal. Alphabetically, the towns are as follows: Source: Instituto Nacional de Estatística A dos Cunhados Abragão Abraveses Aguada de Cima Águas Santas Aguiar da Beira Alandroal Albergaria... vila) of around 3,100 inhabitants in the Leiria is a district of Portugal. The seat of the district is the city of Leiria. Location of the district of Leiria The sixteen concelhos in the district are: Alcobaça Alvaiázere Ansião Batalha Bombarral Caldas da Rainha Castanheira de Pêra Figueiró dos Vinhos Leiria Marinha Grande... district of Leiria, The Republic of Portugal (República Portuguesa), or Portugal, is a democratic republic located on the west and southwest parts of the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe; it is the westernmost country in continental Europe. Portugal is bordered by Spain to the north and east and by the Atlantic... Portugal. It is the seat of the A concelho is the primary local administrative unit in Portugal (and other Lusophone countries). It is also called município (municipality). It can also be loosely translated as county. A concelho contains one or more freguesias. The elected bodies of a concelho are the Câmara Municipal and the Assembleia... concelho ( A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. Municipalities are not necessarily the same as townships. In most countries, this is the smallest administrative subdivision... municipality) of the same name.

The name of the town derives from the Latin term oppidum, meaning "citadel", or "fortified city". The area was For other uses, see Reconquista (Disambiguation). The Reconquista (Spanish and Portuguese for reconquest) was the military conquest of the Iberian Peninsula by Christian rulers, led against the Moors from 718 to 1492. After the Muslim invasion of Iberia in 711 and the Battle of Guadalete the Moors had conquered most... taken from the Moors in Events Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona conquered Tortosa in posetion of the moors. Alfonso I takes Abrantes from the Moors. Births John of Brienne, future king of Jerusalem and Latin Emperor of Constantinople Deaths Categories: 1148 ... 1148, and the town received its first Alternate use, see charter airline or bare-boat charter. A charter is a document bestowing certain rights on a town, city, university or institution. Charters were issued in medieval times by Royal decree, perhaps giving a particular town the right to hold a weekly market, or to levy a toll... charter in Events Priory of St Marys, Bushmead, founded. Births Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan Deaths Heads of states England - Richard I King of England (reigned from 1189 to 1199) France - Philippe II, Auguste King of France (reigned from 1180 to 1223) Categories: 1195 ... 1195, under the reign of Sancho I of Portugal, known as the Populator, second king of Portugal, was born in November 11, 1154 in Coimbra and died in March 26, 1212 in the same city. He was the son of Afonso I Henriques of Portugal by his wife, Mafalda of Savoy. Sancho succeeded his father... Sancho I.

The concelho has an extent of 142.17 km² in area and 10,875 inhabitants (2001), and is subdivided into nine A freguesia is a secondary local administrative unit in Portugal and the former Portuguese overseas province of Macao. It may be translated as civil parish. A freguesia is a subdivision of a concelho (municipality). It is governed by a junta de freguesia. Each concelho can contain many freguesias, but six... freguesias ( A parish is a subdivision of a diocese or bishopric within the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Church of Sweden, and of some other churches. In Roman Catholicism, each parish has the services of a parish priest, who acts as the chaplain to the... parishes). It is bounded in the northeast and east by Caldas da Rainha is a city (Portuguese: cidade) in Portugal. The name can be translated as Queens Hot Springs, Queens Spa or Queens Thermal Waters. Caldas da Rainha is the seat of the larger municipality (Portuguese: concelho or município) of the same name. Caldas da Rainha... Caldas da Rainha, in the south by Bombarral, in the southeast by Lourinhã, in the west by Peniche is a city in Portugal, with approximately 10,000 inhabitants. The municipalitys (Concelho de Peniche) flag is a black over red gironny. The Berlenga Islands are off the coast of Peniche. Categories: Stub | Cities and towns of Portugal | Cities in Portugal | Portugal ... Peniche and in the northwest by the The Atlantic Ocean is Earths second-largest ocean, covering approximately one-fifth of its surface. The oceans name, derived from Greek mythology, means the Sea of Atlas. This ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending in a north-south direction and is divided into the North Atlantic... Atlantic Ocean.

Óbidos is also a town in The Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil in Portuguese) is the largest and most populous country in South America, and fifth largest in the world. Spanning a vast area between central South America and the Atlantic Ocean, it borders Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela... Brazil located at the narrowest and swiftest part of the Length 6,296 km Elevation of the source 5,597 m Average discharge 219,000 m³/ s Area watershed 6,915,000 km² Origin Nevado Mismi Mouth Atlantic Ocean Basin countries Brazil (62.4%), Peru (16.3%) Bolivia (12.0%), Colombia (6.3%) Ecuador (2.1%) The Amazon... Amazon River. As a result, Obidos is the name used by Amazon.com, Inc. ( NASDAQ: AMZN) is an American electronic commerce company based in Seattle, Washington. It was one of the first major companies to sell goods over the Internet. Amazon also owns Alexa Internet, a9.com, and the Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Amazon assigns a unique identifier to all items... Amazon.com for part of their site engine, and appears in all search result URL's.