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	Miranda do Douro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		IPA /mi'ɾɐ̃ðɐ du 'do(w)ɾu]), Miranda de l Douro in Mirandese language, is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 488.0 km² and a total population of 7,797 inhabitants.
		The municipality is composed of 17 parishes, and is located in the northeastern part of the country, in the district of Bragança.
		Miranda do Douro (Miranda de l Douro in Mirandese)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Miranda_do_Douro (492 words)

	Miranda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Miranda, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney
		Miranda, the daughter of Prospero in William Shakespeare's The Tempest
		Ernesto Miranda, defendant and appellant in Miranda v.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Miranda (318 words)

	Tom Miranda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Miranda's surface is criss-crossed by huge canyons up to 20 kilometres (12 miles) deep, with patchwork regions of broken terrain indicating intense geological activity in the moon's past.
		Miranda was born in the small northern Portuguese town of Marco de Canaveses and went to school at the Convent of Saint Teresinha.
		Miranda do Douro is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 488.0 km² and a total population of 7,797 inhabitants.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/181/tom-miranda.html (1693 words)

	IPPAR - IPPAR Services
		The old village of Miranda was raised to the category of city and diocese in 1545.
		King José divided the territory between Bragança and Miranda, but the obvious poverty of the latter made the bishopric definitely settle in Bragança, in 1870, under the title of Bragança and Miranda Diocese.
		The old Miranda do Douro Cathedral followed the decay of this locality and in the last centuries there were no significant works made at the church.
	www.ippar.pt /english/monumentos/se_miranda.html (315 words)

	Miranda do Douro / Miranda de l Douro Municipality (Portugal) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This is the municipal flag of the leonese speaking municipality of Miranda do Douro / Miranda de l Douro, Portugal.
		Miranda do Douro constitute a linguistic minority within Portugal: they speak a dialect (Mirandese —; mirandés) of the Leonese or Asturo-Leonese language, spoken also (but not official) in the spanish communities of Castilla-León (León province) and Asturias.
		Though the language is spoken widely throughout the municipality and beyond (villages Vilar Seco, Angueira and Caçarelhos, Vimioso Municipality, which once belonged to the Miranda do Douro.), in the city itself it is not used, nor have been in recent centuries.
	www.fotw.net /FLAGS/pt-mdr.html (282 words)

	History of the term "Miranda" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Miranda is used as a surname in Iberia, derived from one of at least two place names: There is an ancient city Miranda de Ebro on the river Ebro in northern Spain and another Miranda do Douro on the river Douro in Portugal [2].
		Miranda is a form of the verb mirar "to look (at)" and probably meant something like "look-out point" or "watchtower".
		To summarize: Miranda does not appear to have been used as a given name before 1687 and did not come into regular usage until the 20th century.
	users.adelphia.net /~miranda_vey/history.htm (585 words)

	Miranda (disambiguation)
		Miranda State[?], a state in Venezuela, named after the above
		Miranda[?], novel written in the 1874 by Antonio Fogazzaro
		This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mi/Miranda.html (80 words)

	Universitas Helsingiensis 2/00
		It includes the district of Bragança in the county of Miranda do Douro, a small part of the Vimioso county and a small number of villages in Spain.
		Miranda do Douro was part of Asturica Augusta, Spanish territory today, but not part of Bracara Augusta, now in Portugal.
		Further, the county of Miranda do Douro was not part of the original territory that became Portugal, better known as Condado Portucalense.
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	Portugal - Porto & Douro basin - Miranda do Douro - Estalagem de Santa Catarina
		Miranda do Douro achieved city status in the 16th century when it became capital of the dioceses.
		A river cruise along the Douro on the "navio - Aula Ecologico Escua" is a wonderful opportunity to discover the delights of the area.
		The local gastronomy is also of interest and while in Miranda do Douro do not loose the opportunity to taste the famous "Posta Mirandesa".
	www.inn-portugal.com /inns/estcatarina.html (284 words)

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		Its location by the border gave it great importance as a strategic point of defence and, in the twelfth century, the first king of Portugal, D. Afonso Henriques, ordered a castle to be built there together with the town walls, which transformed the settlement into a genuine stronghold.
		In the seventeenth century, with the wars fought to restore Portuguese independence from Spain, and later during the French invasions, the city suffered a number of major reverses and lost much of its former importance.
		Nowadays, Miranda do Douro is well known for its lively and colourful folklore - the Pauliteiros de Miranda, dressed in their traditional white flannel kilts, perform their famous stick dance to the sound of bagpipes.
	visitportugal.com /NR/exeres/DDF4AB8C-8B56-419F-A59A-FBE08EB27236,fr... (212 words)

	Euromosaic - Mirandese in Portugal
		For example, we must highlight the Primeiras Jornadas de Língua e Cultura Mirandesa staged by the Miranda do Douro Escola Preparatória in 1987, and the Encontro Regional de Variaçao Linguística, which was organized by the Associaçao Portuguesa de Linguística in September 1993.
		In addition, the Municipal Council of Miranda do Douro established a municipal library, the books provided by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and by the Directorate-General for Educational Extension and Adult Education.
		Outside the town of Miranda do Douro itself, it seems that the vast majority of parents continue to pass on Mirandese to their children.
	www.uoc.edu /euromosaic/web/document/mirandes/an/i1/i1.html (1385 words)

	Miranda do Douro: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Miranda do Douro is a municipality in Portugal[For more, click on this link] with a total area of 488.0 km² Square kilometre quick summary:
		The present Mayor is Manuel Rodrigo Martins (Social Democrat[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject]) and the President of the Municipal Assembly is Domingos Duarte Lima (Social Democrat[For more, click on this link]).
		Miranda do Douro is a town in Bragança, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/miranda_do_douro.htm (573 words)

	Blogger do Mirandês (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		- ± 70% of the Miranda do Douro district population.
		The community fostered a very strong association of the language with the characteristic rurality, poverty and the lack of formal education of the speakers of Mirandese.
		Emigration of original Miranda do Douro residents has also accelerated the process.
	mirandes.blogspot.com /2003_03_01_mirandes_archive.html (1514 words)

	Hotels in Miranda do Douro - Miranda do Douro hotel reservations & reviews. Miranda do Douro travel guide and hotel ...
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	Miranda do Douro, Portugal
		The old episcopal city of Miranda do Douro in the northeast of Portugal lies on a rocky hill above the deep valley of the Douro (Spanish Duero and dammed at this point), which here marks the frontier with Spain (no frontier crossing).
		The remoteness of the region, one of the most thinly populated parts of Portugal, has acted as a brake on its cultural and linguistic development, so that it has preserved not only many old customs and traditions but also a local dialect close to Vulgar Latin, the lingua charra or mirandês.
		Rather a somber little town, around its marketplace Miranda do Douro has a number of handsome old burghers' houses with coats of arms and Manueline ornamentation.
	www.planetware.com /portugal/miranda-do-douro-p-brag-mirdou.htm (206 words)

	Algarve Connections - Pousadas Mir-Set
		Overlooking the River Douro dam which separates Portugal & Spain, this Pousada is set in the only village in Portugal where a dialect (Mirandes) is still spoken by its inhabitants and even taught in school, sword dancing and other local customs are still performed in the area.
		Known as the most 'Portuguese Village in Portugal', Monsanto is a journey to the past, with granite houses that blend into the landscape.
		Built in 1947, this is one of the oldest and is the smallest Pousada.
	www.algarveconnections.co.uk /pdp_page44.asp (698 words)

	Bragança, Northern Portugal - Tourism Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		To the south east of Bragança is the historic town of Miranda do Douro that sits above the gorge of the Rio Douro on the border of Spain.
		Further to the south is Vila Flor, a small town with an attractive atmosphere with ruins of its 13th century castle and close to another Spa, Aquas Bem Saúde.
		Has the largest 16 th Century Church in the whole province and near this town is the Vale do Cõa that boasts the world's largest known collection of open-air Stone Age drawings that are estimated to be about 20.000 years old.
	www.portugalvirtual.pt /_tourism/costaverde/braganca (670 words)

	U.S.ENGLISH Foundation Official Language Research - Portugal: Language in everyday life
		Mirandese was taught as an optional subject to a fairly small number of pupils in the first to third year at the Miranda do Douro secondary school.
		Despite the fact that some students were already enrolled to study the Mirandese language as an optional subject (1 hour per week) at schools in Miranda de Douro this school year (2002/2003), the teaching had been interrupted and it was authorized only in December 2002 by the Northern Regional Bureau for Education.
		Spoken in the Trás-os-Montes north-eastern region of Portugal, bordering Spain and especially in the city of Miranda de Douro and surrounding villages, Mirandese is officially recognized and protected by national law and has enjoyed a great revival since introduction of the Orthographic Convention.
	www.us-english.org /foundation/research/olp/viewResearch.asp?CID=38&TID=6 (830 words)

	TRAWLING, SEINING AND NETTING OF FISH - LoveToKnow Article on TRAWLING, SEINING AND NETTING OF FISH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The stow boats do not generally take their fish on shore, but market boats come off to them and buy the fish out of the vessels hold, and carry it away.
		The surface is generally mountainous, although there are tracts of level land in the veigas or cultivated plains of Chaves and Miranda do Douro, and in the cimas or plateau region of Mogadouro.
		The province belongs to the basin of the Douro and is chiefly drained by its tributaries the Tua, Tamega and Sabor.
	www.1911ency.org /T/TR/TRAWLING_SEINING_AND_NETTING_OF_FISH.htm (3059 words)

	Portugal travel Estremos Miranda do Douro Branganca Aveiro
		Here was the Douro River as it started its journey into Portugal, worked it way through the wine country and finally joined the Atlantic Ocean at Porto.
		This Pousada is perched precisely by the dam and where the river Douro separates Portugal from Spain.
		I noticed that they were doing considerable work on the area by the river.
	www.geocities.com /~tomstravel/travel14.htm (4747 words)

	College of Arts and Sciences
		The course, Anthropology 332, is taught in English by faculty from U of L, with participation by faculty and students from the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), in Miranda do Douro.
		In addition to classroom study in Miranda, study excursions will be made to the major Portuguese cities of Lisbon and Porto, as well as to the Spanish cities of Salamanca and Zamora.
		Miranda do Douro is a city on the Douro River Gorge, which forms the border with Spain.
	www.louisville.edu /a-s/anthro/PIP_Summer_2005.htm (365 words)

	ipedia.com: Asturian language Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Asturian or Asturleonés (Bable in Asturian) is a Romance language spoken in some parts of the provinces of Asturias and León in Spain, and in the area of Miranda de Douro in Portugal (where it is co-official and officially called 'Mirandese').
		The situation of Asturian in other parts of Spain is critical, with a large decline in the number of speakers in the last 100 years.
		The area of Miranda de Douro in Portugal has taken a further step in protecting this language, by making it official.
	www.ipedia.com /asturian_language.html (237 words)

	Pousadas of Portugal / Paradores of Spain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		One of the most popular of the Pousadas of Portugal for people crossing into Spain, this property sits atop a hill overlooking the Miranda do Douro dam where the Douro River forms the border between Portugal and Spain.
		Founded by King Dom Sancho in 1226, Alijó is in the heart of the Douro wine valley.
		This is the only one of the Pousadas of Portugal was named after Englishman James Forrester who played a vital role in the development of port wine, this pousada was opened in 1983.
	pousada.com /portugal/pous3.htm (308 words)

	Portugal.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Douro river is the longest in northern Portugal.
		Three towns that set the tone for this charming area of Portugal are Viana do Castelo, lying upon the estuary of the Lima river; Braga, rich in ecclesiastical history; and the medieval Guimarães.
		Deserving special mention are the mother-church and the ancient Paços do Concelho (both Gothic), Casa da Misericórdia (Mannerist, with a sacred art treasure), the medieval Casa dos Arcos, the convent of Santa Ana (16th-century), and the Regional Museum.
	www.portugal.org /tourism/regions1.shtml (1381 words)

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		Oporto, perched on the right bank of the Douro river, is dominated by the Torre dos Clérigos (18th century), built in the Baroque style.
		On the outskirts, 5 km away from the centre, stands the sanctuary of Nossa Senhora do Sameiro; the ancient monastery of Tibães, dating back to the Suevian period and rebuilt in the 11th century, and the Church of São Frutuoso de Montélios (a 7th-century Visigothic temple).
		Viana do Castelo: Spread along the north bank of the Lima estuary (where one can take trips on typical boats), this town is famous for its handicrafts and colourful regional costumes.
	www.mipa-textile.com /htmlsite/turismo.doc (1962 words)

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