Islamic Fishing Village, Carrapateira, Portugal

Islamic Fishing Village, Carrapateira, Portugal - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The Islamic Fishing Village () is an archaeological site close to the town of Carrapateira in the municipality of Aljezur, Algarve Region of Portugal. The site was excavated by a team of researchers from the New University of Lisbon in 2001. This permitted the settlement to be dated to the 12th and 13th centuries, during the Almohad Caliphate at the end of the Muslim occupation of the Algarve. Read more on Wikipedia

type: ancient site
date from: Islamic occupation of Iberia

Source: en.wikipedia.org