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LEIRIA

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 402 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LAP-LEO
LEIRIA , an episcopal city and the
capital
  of the
district
  of Leiria, formerly included in Estremadura, Portugal; on the river Liz and on the
Lisbon
 -Figueria da Foz railway. Pop. (1900) 4459. The
principal
  buildings of Leiria are the ruined citadel, which
dates
  from 1135, and the
cathedral
 , a small Renaissance building erected in 1571 but modernized in the18th century. The main square of the city is named after the poet Francisco Rodrigues Lobo, who was born here about 1500. Between Leiria and the
Atlantic
  there are extensive pine woods known as the Pinhal de Leiria, which were planted by King Diniz (12791325) with trees imported from the Landes in France, in order to give firmness to the sandy soil. In the neighbourhood there are glass and iron foundries, oil wells and
mineral
  springs. Leiria, the Roman Calippo, was taken from the Moors in 1135 by
Alphonso
  I. (Affonso Henriques). King Diniz made it his
capital
 . In 1466 the first Portuguese printing-
press
  was established here; in 1545 the city was made an episcopal see. The administrative
district
  of Leiria coincides with the north and north-west of the ancient province of Estremadura (q.v.); pop. (1900) 238,755; area 1317 sq. m.


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