Lisbon........The Pearl Of Portugal

Is the capital of Portugal since 1256 and its largest city. Located in the province of Lisbon in the center of the
country on the Atlantic coast. The population of the city of Lisbon is about 547 631 people, either in neighboring communities amounts.

Includes many fields, cathedrals and monuments, cafes and shops in addition to contemporary architecture. Lisbon is located on seven hills, one of which resides in the silo Belem Torre de Belem, which was built in 1515 to protect the port of Lisbon. UNESCO has considered a legacy globally, was designed and built by the brothers Arruda King Manuel I, one of the interesting historical landmarks in the area. And Belem, which means Bethlehem in Arabic, is the point from which Vasco da Gama in his journey, which lasted two years and discovered the Cape of Good Hope, and thus the way to India, which strengthened the status of military and financial Portugal.
Islamic era
Opened at the hands of the Umayyad dynasty led by Tariq ibn Ziyad in 714 AD, and was launched by the

Muslim name of Lisbon, and has become a rule of Andalusia. Download it Algalicion in the reign of Prince Abdul Rahman East, and seized Bsatha, and made it a center for the raids on Qurmona, and Seville, and Moron, invoked Abdul Rahman Buale holes in top Musa bin vaccinia, and he was credited in overcoming the Normans and expelled from the region. As Caliphate fell Córdoban, and the states Taifa become the property of the Lisbon-Mutawakkil bin Alavtts, which the Crown by Abu Muhammad bin Hood. Lisbon fell in the hands of the Portuguese in the late days stationed in Andalusia.

The Lisbon in the Islamic era, the city of severe immunity impregnable, and was surrounded by a wall, and

inside the Kasbah (fortress or castle), and opens in the wall five-door: the door-west had been held by the knot curbs above the knot curbs on the mayors of Marble installed on the stones of marble, and was the largest doors the most important, and another door knew Balkhuchh, and they also have a door before me called Bab Al Bahr, was opening in the wall eastern two doors: one door Hamma relative to a spring of water for bathing and hospitalization, while the other door realizes the door of the tomb, and thanks for adventurers Albertgalin in the discovery of large parts of the world goal in research and exploration trips that were graduated from Lisbon.