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on 8 August 1385, vowing to return and offer thanksgiving for success in battle. With victory achieved, he returned and had a rock sculpture of
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In the 17th and 18th centuries, Abrantes was an important military base, classified a
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in 1173. Three years later, he granted its fish channel to the
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of the peninsula, the fort and parish were a staging point for
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165:2.21 km (0.85 sq mi)
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605:The History of the Peninsular War
558:Instituto Nacional de Estatística
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332:Praça de Guerra de 1.ª Ordem
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336:War Plaza of the First Order
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79:39°27′27″N
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313:Afonso II
264:freguesia
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192:Time zone
149:Disbanded
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255:São João
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370:John I
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