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Tôrres Vedras
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Tôrres Vedras (tō`rəsh vā`drəsh), town (1991 pop. 13,300), Lisboa dist., W central Portugal, in Estremadura. Located in an agricultural center, it produces wine and minor manufactures. The town was captured from the Moors by Alfonso I soon after he took Lisbon (1147) but was reconquered by the Almohads briefly in 1189. Tôrres Vedras was an important fortress and royal residence throughout the Middle Ages and was an important strategic point in the Peninsular War (1810).
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Located between Mafra and Torres Vedras, the fort is thought to have sheltered General Wellington's troops serving the Torres Vedras line during the French invasions, between 1807 and 1814.
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et in balneis que fuerunt magistri iohannis'), see Jose Manuel Vargas, 'O patrimonio das Ordens Militares em Lisboa, Sintra e Torres Vedras, segundo uma inquiricao do reinado de Afonso II', in Ordens Militares: guerra, religiao, poder e cultura: actas do III Encontro sobre Ordens Militares, II (Lisbon: Colibri-Camara Municipal de Palmela, 1999), p.
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