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TORRES VEDRAS

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 61 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TOO-TUM
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).


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