Santa Bárbara de Nexe
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Santa Bárbara de Nexe is a village and civil parish in the Portuguese municipality of Faro on the southern Algarve region. The population in 2011 was 4,116, in an area of 38.22 km². It is located a fe
The parochial church of Santa Bárbara de Nexe, constructed over a 12th-century chapel
The cemetery of Santa Bárbara de Nexe
Afonso III of Portugal
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Afonso III, called the Boulonnais, was King of Portugal and the first to use the title King of Portugal and the Algarve, from 1249. He was the second son of King Afonso II of Portugal and Urraca of Ca
Santa Bárbara de Nexe
…be incorporated in the Kingdom of Portugal during the end of the Portuguese Reconquista against the Moors and their Muslim rule, in 1272, by King Afonso III of Portugal. The eldest reference to a place called "Nexe" appears in 1291 in a chart about the boundaries of Faro and Loulé. During the 14th century, the parochial…
Effigy on a contemporary coin
A statue of Afonso in Faro, Portugal
1266 seal of Afonso III.