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D. Afonso Henriques
06-18-2007, 20:11
Okay, I've started this post for anyone who has any usefull information about the Iberian Peninsula. Although I'll mailly focus on Portucal, the thread is for all of the Iberian Peninsula.

D. Afonso Henriques
06-18-2007, 20:27
Where is the medieval map of the city that was on the map of the Iberian Peninsula, witch now is Évora:
http://www.caleida.pt/filatelia/aleph/dados/artigo084_12.gif
The walls have 40 Towers and 10 Gates, as it can be seen. It is a quite Early design, at least the walls were already like this at 1071. Sorry I don't have more info on the city. Though in the game it should be considered a fortress. (because of the inner wall). It was in possesion of the moors I believe, though I still have to check on that.
In case you're not understanding what city I'm talking about where is a modern map for Évora:
http://historiaaberta.com.sapo.pt/graf/map_evora.gif

D. Afonso Henriques
06-18-2007, 20:34
I forgot to mention that this thread is only for geografically related thems. By the way the walls of Évora never got to expand, so just make an appropriate third wall for the Citatel.

D. Afonso Henriques
06-18-2007, 20:59
I'm afraid that this province may not be included, tough it had very mutch importance to medieval history. It was first named Algarves (moorish name and origin). It was the last standing resistance of moors towards the portuguese reconquista and was quite hard to conquer.
Here is the modern map for the province, which was basically the same in medieval ages:
http://www.olhao.net/Olhao/Imagens/Algarve.gif
It is located at the southwest conner of the Iberian Peninsula. Still trying to find the main city's map (PS: OLHÃO is not the main city)

D. Afonso Henriques
06-18-2007, 21:11
By the way forgot to mention that nowadays the walls of évora are no longer the same, in fact their are very diffent. Now they are a mist of muslim and weastern cristian type. Still recent images of it can be seen in tourism sites (of Portugal).