Lisbon


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Europe, Portugal Seaport, City Lisbon

City (1991 pop. 677,790), (cap.) Portugal, Estremadura prov., and Lisboa dist., W Portugal, on the Tagus R. where it broadens to enter the Atlantic Ocean, and set on 7 terraced hills; 38º43'N 09º08'W. Portugal’s largest city and its cultural, administrative, commercial, and industrial hub. Has one of the best harbors in Europe, handling a large trade. The Castelo de Sao Jorge, a fort that dominates the city, may have been built by the Romans on the site of the citadel of the early inhabitants, who traded with Phoenician and Carthaginian navigators. The Romans occupied the town in 205 B.C., and it was conquered by the Moors in A.D. 714.

Sources

Robert A. McCaughey

Compiler

Peter Richards

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