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Alentejo
The Alentejo is a region of southern Portugal between the Tagus and the Algarve, a land of plains, cork oaks, olive groves and wheat fields. Inhabited in antiquity by peoples such as the Cynetes and Celtici, it was part of Roman Lusitania and later of al-Andalus, and was taken by Portugal in the 12th and 13th centuries. Évora and Beja are its main historic towns.
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