The Reconquista placed the region on the historical map; historical tradition holds that it was in São Pedro das Cabeças that the famous Battle of Ourique was waged by forces of Portuguese nobleman Afonso Henriques, who presumably decapitated five Moorish kings during the battle.
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Turdetani, Roman and Arab peoples left behind several markers in the lands, although its settlements were primarily the consequence of Lusitanian castros that dotted the landscape.
The Espanca script (from Castro Verde, Baixo Alentejo, Portugal) is the only complete signary (alphabetical sequence) known of the Paleohispanic scripts.
Fidel Castro | Cape Verde | Fogo, Cape Verde | Mosteiros, Cape Verde | Castro | São Vicente, Cape Verde | Verónica Castro | Ribeira Grande, Cape Verde | Norte, Cape Verde | Cristian Castro | Sal, Cape Verde | palo verde | Santo Antão, Cape Verde | Tarrafal, Cape Verde | São Nicolau, Cape Verde | Raúl Castro | Pedro Fernández de Castro | Castro culture | Boa Vista, Cape Verde | Rio Verde | Music of Cape Verde | Gualberto Castro | Cobra Verde | Adam-Troy Castro | Tony Castro (yacht designer) | Tony Castro | Isla Verde | Castro Alves | Brava, Cape Verde | Verde River |
Entradas is a Portuguese town/parish within the boundaries of the municipality of Castro Verde, in the southern Alentejo region.
Legend has it that this relic arrived in Portugal in the possession of Princess Vataça Lascaris, and today is (and on exhibition at the Royal Treasury in the Basilica of Castro Verde).
Further, the municipality of Castro Verde is crossed by the Iberian Pyrite Belt, composed of a massive volcanogenic sulfide deposit (VMS) associated with the polymetallic flanks of volcanic cones in the form of pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena and cassiterite, that begins in Aljustrel, spreads through the lower Alentejo and extends into southern Spain.