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    Mértola (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈmɛɾtulɐ] ) is a town and municipality in southeastern Portuguese Alentejo near the Spanish border. In 2011, the population...
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    Frederica Susanna Mildmay, Countess FitzWalter, 3rd Countess of Mértola (née Schomberg, previously Frederica Darcy, Countess of Holderness; 1687 – 7 August...
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    Castle of Mértola (Portuguese: Castelo de Mértola) is a well-preserved medieval castle located in the civil parish and municipality of Mértola, in the Portuguese...
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  • The title Count of Mértola (Portuguese: Conde de Mértola) was granted to Frederick, 1st Duke of Schomberg by Afonso VI of Portugal, in 1663, as a reward...
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    Almodôvar Alvito Barrancos Beja Castro Verde Cuba Ferreira do Alentejo Mértola Moura Odemira Ourique Serpa Vidigueira All 14 municipalities are divided...
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    Museu de Mertola is an archaeological museum complex in Mertola, Portugal. Mertola has three main museum sites. The Roman museum (the Roman city was Myrtilis...
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  • Miller (later Countess of Mértola), 9th holder of the barony of Fauconberg and 16th of Conyers. Since Diana, Countess of Mértola's death in 2013, both titles...
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    Church of Nossa Senhora da Anunciação (Portuguese: Igreja Paroquial de Mértola/Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Assunção/Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Anunciação)...
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    Amelia Osborne, Marchioness of Carmarthen (category Counts of Mértola)
    12th Baroness Darcy de Knayth, 9th Baroness Conyers, 5th Countess of Mértola (née Darcy; 12 October 1754 – 27 January 1784), was a British peer and...
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    The Ponte Velha de Mértola ("Old Bridge of Mértola"), also referred to as the Ponte Branca or Torre do Rio, is a structure located along the Guadiana...
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    The Taifa of Mértola (Arabic: طائفة مارتلة) was a medieval Islamic Moorish taifa that existed in what is now southeastern Portugal. It existed during...
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    the east of Portalegre, includes medieval villages. In the south, near Mértola, there is another nature park area, named Parque Natural do Vale Guadiana...
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    Dynasty) This region includes the Alentejo and Algarve region of Portugal. Mértola 1033–1044 (Tayfurid Dynasty); 1044–1091 (to Seville) Saltés and Huelva...
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    Alfonso VI of León and Castile between 1093 and 1094. The first Taifa of Mértola lasted from 1033 to 1044, when it became part of the Taifa of Seville....
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    the German soldier of fortune, Friedrich Hermann von Schönberg, Count of Mértola, The brigade under Schomberg's leadership, proved a decisive factor in...
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    Charles Schomberg, Marquess of Harwich, Frederica Mildmay, Countess of Mértola, Lady Caroline Schomberg, and Lady Mary Schomberg. However, Liselotte in...
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    Narga Selassie, Daga Estifanos, Medhane Alem of Rema, Kota Maryam, and Mertola Maryam). On the island of Tana Qirqos is a rock shown to Paul B. Henze...
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    numerous Islamic taifas (independent principalities), including those of Mértola (1044–45), Huelva (1051), Algeciras (1055), Ronda (1065) and Arcos (1069)...
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    pdf [bare URL PDF] "Mertola Mosque". discoverislamicart.org. Retrieved 30 September 2018. "Igreja matriz de Mértola". patrimoniocultural.gov.pt...
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  • In the 9th minute of a regional league game against São Domingos FC, in Mértola, he collapsed on the pitch and never recovered. He was transported to Beja...
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    Narga Selassie, Daga Estifanos, Medhane Alem of Rema, Kota Maryam and Mertola Maryam). The body of Yekuno Amlak is interred in the monastery of St. Stephen...
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    officer from her window, the now-locally famous "janela de Mértola", or "window of Mértola". The attribution to Gabriel-Joseph de la Vergne, Comte de...
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  • authority of the Almoravid dynasty in 1141 and ruled a taifa based on Mértola in the al-Gharb from 1144 until 1151. The founder and leader of the Murīdūn...
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    control was very large, stretching from the Sierra Morena and the taifas of Mértola and Silves in the south, to the Campo de Calatrava in the west, the Montes...
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    Old Mosque in Mértola, Portugal, converted into a church....
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    of Marvão Castle of Mau Vizinho (Vila Real) Castle of Melgaço Castle of Mertola Castle of Messejana Castle of Miranda do Douro Castle of Mirandela Castle...
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    Reconquista: King Sancho II of Portugal conquers the cities of Aljustrel and Mértola from the Moors. February 9 – Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty: The Mongol...
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    Mértola's former mosque was transformed into a church in 1238....
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    Marquess of Harwich, Earl of Brentford, Earl of Bangor, Baron Tara, Count of Mértola (Portugal) Raugravine Caroline Elisabeth (1659–1696) Charles Lennox (1672–1723)...
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    is navigable from the Atlantic Ocean until Mértola, a distance of 68 kilometres (42 mi). North of Mértola on the Guadiana is the highest waterfall is...
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