TORRES VEDRAS  , a

town of Portugal, in the district of Lisbon, 43 in . N. by W. of Lisbon, on the Lisbon-Figueira da Foz railway . Pop . (1900), 6900 . Torres Vedras is built on the left bank of the river Sizandro; it has a Moorish citadel and hot sulphur baths . Roman inscriptions and other remains have been found here, but the Latin name of the town, Turres Veteres, is probably medieval . Here were the noted fortifications known as the " lines of Torres Vedras," constructed by Wellington in 1810 (see PENINSULAR WAR) . Here also in 1846 the troops of General Saldanha defeated those of the count de Bomfin and seized the castle and town (see PORTUGAL: History) .