Almourol is a small islet on the Tagus river, Portugal.
The complex is situated at Duque da Terceira square in central Lisbon on the bank of Tagus.
He became famous for saying that the southern waterfront of the Tagus river in Portugal "is a desert".
Os Músicos do Tejo (the musicians of the River Tagus) are a Portuguese early music group founded in 2005.
It is situated in the city's central part on the bank of the Tagus river in the historical district of Alfama.
For example, in 1587, Sir Francis Drake briefly approached the river after his successful raid at Cadiz.
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Richard Crashaw's poem "Saint Mary Magdalene, or the Weeper" refers to the "Golden" Tagus as wanting Mary Magdalene's silver tears.
In 1938 while still a cadet he saved a woman who was trying to commit suicide in the Tagus River.
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Moorish geographers make no mention of the Alconétar Bridge, even though they praise the Roman bridge of Alcántara which also leads across the Tagus.
Tablets behind the organ honor Benjamin and Frances Handley, as well as four of their children, including their son Benjamin Handley who drowned as a young man in the Tagus in 1813.
It comprised 48,000 hectares of land located between the Tagus and Sado Rivers.
Vasco da Gama Bridge, a cable-stayed bridge over the Tagus River in Parque das Nações
The migration of the Celtici is considered part of a third or fourth wave of Celts in the 4th century BCE: this migration occurred across modern-day Aragon and into modern-day Extremadura and Alentejo, displacing the proto-Celt Lusitanians who dominated the lands north of the Tagus, and skirting the Vettones lands that stretched from Zamora to Castelo Branco.
The city came to be very prosperous through suppression of piracy and technological advances, which allowed a boom in the trade with the newly Roman Provinces of Britannia (particularly Cornwall) and the Rhine, and through the introduction of Roman culture to the tribes living by the river Tagus in the interior of Hispania.
After the defeat of the Muslim forces, the gun was sent to Lisbon, first being set in the Castle of São Jorge and, after 1640, in the Fortress of S. Julião da Barra, in Oeiras, to defend the mouth of the River Tagus.