Mértola
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Mértola (), officially the Town of Mértola (), is a town and municipality in southeastern Portuguese Alentejo near the Spanish border. In 2011, the population was 7,274, in an area of approximately : it is the sixth-largest municipality in Portugal. Meanwhile, it is the second-lowest population centre by density with approximately 5.62 persons/ (second to the adjacent Alcoutim).
Key facts
- Portuguese subdivision.type
- municipality
- Portuguese subdivision.name
- Mértola
- Portuguese subdivision.official_name
- Town of Mértola
- Portuguese subdivision.image_flag
- Pt-mtl1.png
- Portuguese subdivision.flag_border
- no
- Portuguese subdivision.image_shield
- MTL.png
- Portuguese subdivision.image_skyline
- Mértola,_Portugal_2019-11-10-2.jpg
- Portuguese subdivision.image_caption
- Mértola viewed from the opposite shore of the Guadiana, with the city wall and the medieval castle uphill
- Portuguese subdivision.map_caption
- Interactive map of Mértola
- Portuguese subdivision.region
- Alentejo
- Portuguese subdivision.CIM
- Baixo Alentejo
- Portuguese subdivision.district
- Beja
- Portuguese subdivision.parishes
- 7
- Portuguese subdivision.leader_party
- PS
- Portuguese subdivision.leader_name
- Jorge Rosa
- Portuguese subdivision.area_total_km2
- 1292.87
- Portuguese subdivision.population_total
- 7274
- Portuguese subdivision.population_as_of
- 2011
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- History
- Romans
- Germanic tribes
- Moors
- Reconquista
- Modernity
- Geography
- Climate
- Culture
- Main sights
- Festivals
- Notable people
- References
- External links
Mértola (), officially the Town of Mértola (), is a town and municipality in southeastern Portuguese Alentejo near the Spanish border. In 2011, the population was 7,274, in an area of approximately : it is the sixth-largest municipality in Portugal. Meanwhile, it is the second-lowest population centre by density with approximately 5.62 persons/ (second to the adjacent Alcoutim).
The seat of the municipality is the town of Mértola, which has around 2800 inhabitants (2011), located on a hill over the Guadiana River. Its strategic location made it an important fluvial commercial port in Classical Antiquity, through the period of Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Mértola's main church (the Church of Nossa Senhora da Anunciação) was the only medieval mosque to have survived the period in Portugal.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mértola” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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