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SS El Faro was a United States-flagged, combination roll-on/roll-off and lift-on/lift-off cargo ship crewed by U.S. merchant mariners.Built in 1975 by Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. as Puerto Rico, the vessel was renamed Northern Lights in 1991 and, finally, El Faro in 2006.
The Portuguese-Leonese rivalry started with the Battle of Valdevez, in which Portuguese forces defeated the Leonese army.The successor of king Alfonso VII of León and Castile, king Ferdinand II of León, refused to acknowledge the Portuguese kingdom, as he proclaimed his right over Portugal, which led to the establishment of a fortress to conduct raids against the Portuguese.
This list of newspapers in Spain includes daily, weekly Spanish newspapers issued in Spain.In 1950 the number of daily newspapers in circulation in Spain was 104; by 1965 this figure had fallen to 87. [1]
Badajoz was known as Baṭalyaws (Arabic: بَطَلْيَوْس) during Muslim rule, from which its present name gradually evolved. The invasion of Badajoz by Christian rulers in 1086 under Alfonso VI of León, overturned the rule of the Moors. In addition to an invasion by the Almoravids of Morocco in 1092, Badajoz was later invaded by the ...
El Faro is an internationally acclaimed Central American digital news outlet founded in 1998 in El Salvador. [2] In April 2023, El Faro moved its administrative and legal operations to San José, Costa Rica, registering the newsroom as the non-profit Fundación Periódica. [3]
Richard Fletcher and Simon Barton, The World of El Cid, Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest. Muhammad Abdullah Enan, The State of Islam in Andalusia, Vol. III: The Era of Almoravids and Almohads, Part 1. Ibn 'Idhari, Al-Bayan al-Mughrib, Vol III.
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In 1169, Gerald the Fearless and Afonso I besieged Badajoz, the largest and most important city in the west of the peninsula. Alarmed by this news, the Almohad Caliph Abu Yaqub Yusuf sent an army of 20.000 men commanded by Abu Hafs to the Iberian peninsula, hoping that the city had not yet fallen to Christian hands. [ 3 ]