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Silves (pronounced Sílvesh) is a town on the Portuguese Algarve. It is located near a Roman bridge over the Ribeira de Arade and thus controls the river valley down to the coast.It is also the name of the region of the Algarve of which it is the capital, also called Silves ([1]concelho do Silves) Image File history File links SLV.png Crest of Silves municipality (Portugal) Author: Sérgio Horta The author has agreed to usage of his works under the GNU-FDL, as long as he is quoted as the source: Caro Senhor, Manuel Anastácio File links The following pages link to... Image File history File links SLV.png Crest of Silves municipality (Portugal) Author: Sérgio Horta The author has agreed to usage of his works under the GNU-FDL, as long as he is quoted as the source: Caro Senhor, Manuel Anastácio File links The following pages link to... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Algarve The Algarve is the name of the southern coast of Portugal, incorporating, amongst others, the cities of Faro, Lagos, and Portimão. ...

The town was occupied by the Muslims in 713 and became part of the Ummayad kingdom of Cordoba under the Arabic name of Shilb شلب. In the 10th century, it was one of the most important towns of western Al-Andalus. Silves became an independent taifa in 1027 under the rule of Ibn Mozaine and his son, who was dethroned in 1051 by al-Mu'tadid, the governor of Sevilla. al-Mu'tamid ibn 'Abbad, the son of al-Mu'tadid and a famous poet, ruled the taifa of Silves until 1091. After the Almoravid conquest the town became Almohad in 1156. In 1189 King Sancho I of Portugal conquered the town during the reconquista, but lost it again to the Almohads. The town was finally taken from the last Muslim king Ibn Afan by Paio Peres Correia, Master of the order of Santiago in 1242, after the Alentejo and most of the coast had already fallen in 1238. The great mosque was changed into a church (Cathedral Sé). In 1267 the Algarve became Portuguese. In 1491 the town was given to queen Leonora by King Joao. Location within Spain Córdoba, the Roman bridge and the Mosque-Cathedral View across the old Roman bridge towards the Mezquita Interior court of the Mezquita Córdoba is a city in Andalucía, southern Spain, and the capital of the province of Córdoba. ... The term taifa in the history of Iberia refers to an independent Muslim-ruled principality, an emirate or petty kingdom, of which a number formed in Spain (Arabic: Al-Andalus) after the final collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba in 1031. ... This article is about the city in Spain. ... Al-Mutamid (d. ... Almoravides (From Arabic المرابطون sing. ... The Almohad Dynasty (From Arabic الموحدون al-Muwahhidun, i. ... Sancho I of Portugal, known as the Populator (Port. ... For other uses, see Reconquista (Disambiguation). ... 17th century interpretation of saint James as the Moor-killer from the Peruvian school of Cuzco. ... Alentejo (pron. ...

Parts of the Almohad town wall, constructed from poured concrete, have been preserved, as well as the Almedina-gate (Porta de Loulé). Other sights include the Church Santa Misericórdia with a fine door in manuelitic style, the main body of the church was built in 1727/28, a museum for cork and the production of wine-corks in a defunct factory which is now also a centre for cultural events called "[2]Fabrica do Ingles" (The Englishmans Factory) and the municipial museum (museu municipal de Arqueologia) with finds from the palaeolithic onwards. Loulé is a city in the Algarve region, southern Portugal. ... A cork stopper for a wine bottle A Champagne cork Cork material is a subset of generic cork tissue, harvested for commercial use primarily from the Cork Oak tree, Quercus suber, with Portugal producing most cork worldwide. ... The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic – lit. ...

The town is situated on a hill above the river Arade. The Castelo de Mouros is located on the top of the hill. It occupies ca. 12.000 m2. Archaeological excavations have shown that the oldest buildings go back to the 8th century, the stratigraphy is almost 6 m deep and contains Iron Age remains as well. The walls are built of red sandstone (grés des Silves) with a pisé-core and have been heavily restored in the 1940s. Protruding towers of albarra-type protect the Northern slope. After the Christian conquest, the castle served as the seat of the alcaide-mor (provincial governor) till the middle of the 16th century, afterwards the towers were used as a prison. For excavation in civil engineering see earthworks (engineering). ... Stratigraphy, a branch of geology, is basically the study of rock layers and layering (stratification). ... Iron Age Axe found on Gotland This article is about the archaeological period known as the Iron Age, for the mythological Iron Age see Iron Age (mythology). ... Sandstone near Stadtroda, Germany Sandstone is an sedimentary rock composed mainly of feldspar and quartz and varies in colour (in a similar way to sand), through grey, yellow, red, and white. ... Rammed earth walls form part of the entrance building for the Eden Project in Cornwall, England. ...

Silves is built on top of one of the largest underground aquifers in the south of Portugal, The Querença-Silves Aquifer[3], and is an important area for orange groves in the region, a fruit introduced by the Moors.

Municipalities of the District of Faro
Albufeira | Alcoutim | Aljezur | Castro Marim | Faro | Lagoa | Lagos | Loulé | Monchique | Olhão | Portimão | São Brás de Alportel | Silves | Tavira | Vila do Bispo | Vila Real de Santo António