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2. Algarve - Wikipedia

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   Algarve Shopping, a shopping center located in Guia, Albufeira. Tourism-related activities are extensive and make up the bulk of the Algarve's economy during summer. The Algarve's economy has always been closely linked to the sea. Fishing and fish processing have been an important activity since ancient times.

3. Kingdom of the Algarve - Wikipedia

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   The Kingdom of the Algarve (Portuguese: Reino do Algarve, from the Arabic Gharb al-Andalus غَرْب الأنْدَلُس, "Western al-'Andalus"), after 1471, Kingdom of the Algarves (Portuguese: Reino dos Algarves), was a nominal kingdom within the Kingdom of Portugal, located in the southernmost region of continental Portugal, until the end of the monarchy in 1910.

4. Portuguese conquest of the Algarve - Wikipedia

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   The cross of the Order of Santiago. In 1234, the grand-master of the Order of Santiago Pedro Gonzalez Mengo decided to carry out the conquest of Alentejo and Algarve, south of the Tagus river and towards that purpose he relocated considerable men and resources to Alcácer do Sal, a town owned by the Order that was commanded by the experienced Paio Peres Correia, who was to be found there in ...

5. List of Portuguese monarchs - Wikipedia

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   During the Reconquista, the Afonsine Dynasty expanded the country southwards until the definitive conquest of Algarve with Sancho II and the establishment of the Kingdom of Algarve, in 1249, under Afonso III. When Ferdinand I died, a succession crisis occurred between 1383 and 1385.

6. Albufeira - Wikipedia

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   Albufeira (pronounced [alβuˈfɐjɾɐ] ⓘ, locally [aɫbʷˈfeɾɐ, aɫbˈfeɾɐ]) is a city and municipality of Faro District in the Algarve region of southern Portugal.The population in 2021 was 44,158, [1] in an area of 140.66 square kilometres (54.31 square miles). [2]

7. Faro District - Wikipedia

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   In the year 552, the current area of Algarve was regained by the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantine Empire (then governed by Emperor Justinian I), and a government was appointed that lasted until the year 571, when King Liuvigild conquered it for the Visigothic Kingdom.