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SILVES

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 117 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SILVES  , a

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city of S .
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Portugal, in the
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district of
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Faro (formerly the
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province of
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Algarve); on the right
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bank of the
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river Silves at the
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head of its
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estuary, and 30 M . W.N.W. of Faro . Pop . (19o0) 9687 . Silves is surrounded by Moorish walls and dominated by a Moorish
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castle . It has a
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fine
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Gothic
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church . It has manufactures of corks and
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soap; and exports
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corn, vegetables and fruits . Large
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numbers of pigs are bred, and fishing is carried on in the river and at
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sea .
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Alphonso III . (1210—1248) wrested Silves from the
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Moors .

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