ESTREMOZ  , a

town of Portugal, in the district of Evora, formerly included in the province of Alemtejo; 104 M. by rail E. of Lisbon, on the Casa Branca-Evora-Elvas railway . Pop . (1900) 7920 . Estremoz is built at the base of a hill crowned by a large dismantled citadel; its fortifications, which in the 17th century accommodated 20,000 troops and rendered the town one of the principal defences of the frontier, are now obsolete . There are marble quarries in the neighbourhood, and the Estremoz bilhas, red earthenware jars, are used throughout Portugal as water-holders and exported to Spain . At Ameixial (1188) and Montes Claros, near Estremoz, the Spanish were severely defeated by the Portuguese in 1663 and 1665 . Villa Vicosa (3841), 10 M . S.E., is a town of pre-Roman origin, containing a royal palace . The altars with Latin inscriptions to the Iberian god Endo-. vellicus, found at Villa Vicosa, are preserved in the museum of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Lisbon .