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Encyclopedia Britannica



PALMELLA

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 644 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PAI-PAS
PALMELLA , a town of Portugal, in the
district
  of
Lisbon
  (formerly included in the province of Estremadura); at the north-eastern extremity of the Serra da Arrabida, and on the
Lisbon
 -Setubal railway. Pop. (1goo), inclusive of the neighbouring
village
  of Marateca, 11,478. Palmella is an ancient and picturesque town, still surrounded by massive but ruined walls and dominated by a medieval
castle
 . Viticulture, market-gardening and fruit-farming are important local
industries
 . Palmella was taken from the Moors in 1147 by
Alphonso
  I. (Affonso Henriques), and entrusted in 1186 to the knights of Santiago. The
title
  " duke of Palmella "
dates
  from 1834, when it was conferred on the statesman Pedro de
Sousa
 -Holstein,
count
  of Palmella (1781-185o).


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