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    Lagos (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈlaɣuʃ] ; literally "lakes"; from Proto-Celtic: *Lacobriga) is a city and municipality at the mouth of Bensafrim River...
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    Lagos is a city in the District of Faro, in Portugal. According to tradition, the city was founded about 2,000 years before the Birth of Christ, having...
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  • Esperança de Lagos (abbreviated as CF Esperança de Lagos or CF Esperança Lagos), usually referred to as Esperança de Lagos, is a Portuguese football club...
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    Praia da Luz (redirect from Luz (Lagos))
    da Luz (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpɾajɐ ðɐ ˈluʃ]), officially Luz, is a civil parish of the municipality of Lagos, in Algarve region, Portugal. The population...
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    larger Lagos Island. Their ruler Olofin divided the island among his ten sons. One of them, Aromire, planted pepper on the nearby island of Lagos. The palace...
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    Lagos (/ˈleɪɡɒs/ LAY-goss; also US: /ˈlɑːɡoʊs/ LAH-gohss; Yoruba: Èkó) or Lagos City is the most populous city in Nigeria, with an estimated population...
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    Ponta da Piedade (category Lagos, Portugal)
    Piedade (Portuguese for "point of mercy") is a headland with a group of rock formations along the coastline of the town of Lagos, in the Portuguese region...
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    of the Gulf of Cádiz on 18 August and to the east of the small Portuguese port of Lagos, after which the battle is named, on 19 August. La Clue was attempting...
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    The Castle of Lagos is a medieval castle located in the municipality of Lagos, Portugal. Its walls surrounded the entire city of Lagos, providing the town...
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    Tourville defeated an Anglo-Dutch fleet under George Rooke near Lagos Bay in Portugal. Rooke's squadron was protecting the Smyrna convoy, and it is by...
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  • Look up lago in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lago, which means "lake" in Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Galician, may refer to: Lago, Calabria, a...
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  • Lagos is the largest city and commercial capital of Nigeria. Lagos may also refer to: Lagos, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a commune in the département of Pyrénées-Atlantiques...
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    established Lagos as being under British protection. Ten years later, the forced Lagos Treaty of Cession led to the formal establishment of the Lagos Colony...
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    Mercado de Escravos (category Slavery in Portugal)
    de Escravos (Slave Market) is a historical building in Lagos, in the Faro District of Portugal. It is located on the site where the first slave market...
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    São Gonçalo de Lagos is a civil parish in the municipality of Lagos, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes São Sebastião...
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    Algarve (redirect from Algarve, Portugal)
    southern Portugal dates back to the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods. The presence of megalithic stones in the area of Vila do Bispo, Lagos, Alcoutim...
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    Ksar el-Kebir (category CS1 Portuguese-language sources (pt))
    (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 686. "Geminações". cm-lagos.pt (in Portuguese). Lagos. Retrieved 2022-10-12. 35°00′32″N 5°54′00″W / 35.009°N 5...
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    Gil Eanes (category People from Lagos, Portugal)
    old Portuguese spelling; Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʒil iˈɐnɨʃ]) was a 15th-century Portuguese navigator and explorer. Gil Eanes was born in Lagos in...
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  • Lançarote de Freitas (category People from Lagos, Portugal)
    Lagos or Lançarote da Ilha, was a 15th-century Portuguese explorer and slave trader from Lagos, Portugal. He was the leader of two large Portuguese slaving...
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  • Lagos is a Portuguese wine region centered on the Lagos municipality in the Algarve region. The region has Portugal's highest wine classification as a...
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    'lakes' in Portuguese, therefore Lagos Lagoon is an example of a tautological place name. The lagoon lies between the Atlantic Ocean and Lagos State. It...
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  • Fox's bigger adventures include rowing across the Atlantic Ocean from Lagos, Portugal to Macuro, Venezuela in 2016 with four of his friends including Oliver...
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    Caravel (redirect from Portuguese caravel)
    The caravel (Portuguese: caravela, IPA: [kɐɾɐˈvɛlɐ]) is a small maneuverable sailing ship used in the 15th century by the Portuguese to explore along...
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    Odiáxere (category Parishes of Lagos, Portugal)
    Odiáxere is a town and civil parish in the municipality of Lagos, Portugal. The population in 2021 was 3,046, up from 2,984 in 2011, in an area of 31...
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  • Disappearance of Madeleine McCann (category 2007 crimes in Portugal)
    disappeared from her bed in a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Lagos, Portugal, on the evening of 3 May 2007. The Daily Telegraph described her disappearance...
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    Gundisalvus of Lagos, O.E.S.A. (Portuguese: Gonçalo de Lagos; c. 1360 – 15 October 1422) was a Portuguese Catholic priest and Augustinian friar. Gundisalvus...
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  • Les Gray (category English expatriates in Portugal)
    1992, Gray moved with his wife Carol to live in the Algarve region of Portugal. He died on 21 February 2004, of a heart attack, whilst fighting throat...
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    Drawbridge at the fort of Ponta da Bandeira in Lagos, Portugal...
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  • for the sale of African slaves, the Mercado de Escravos, opens in Lagos, Portugal. A serious fire occurs at Old St Paul's Cathedral in London. The Iguvine...
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  • 2005 European Champion Clubs Cup (category International athletics competitions hosted by Portugal)
    The 2005 European Champion Clubs Cup (ECCC) in athletics was held in Lagos, Portugal, from 27 to 28 May 2005. Men's winning clubs Women's winning clubs...
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