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Silves
Silves is a town on the Arade river in the western Algarve, southern Portugal. As Shilb it was the chief city of the Islamic Algarve, known for its poets and its red sandstone castle, and the seat of the taifas of the Banu Muzayn and later Ibn al-Mundhir. Sancho I of Portugal took it with crusader help in 1189, the Almohads recovered it in 1191, and Portugal conquered it finally in the 1240s.
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