LISBON - an overview

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A compact people-oriented and inexpensive city of about 600,000 situated about a third of the way up Portugal’s coast, Lisbon has been its capital and most important seaport since 1147. Its history goes back before the Romans, and it has been occupied by a succession of conquerors, most notably the Moors, until it became the capital of the new independent nation. Eventually controlling an empire... Read Full Entry

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