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LOPES (David). HISTÓRIA DE ARZILA Durante o Domínio Português (1471-1550 e 1577-1589). Coimbra. 1924. - LOPES (David) HISTÓRIA DE ARZILA Durante o Domínio Português (1471-1550 e 1577-1589) . Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade, 1924. XL, 492 pp.; 235 mm. A seminal study on the history of Arzila as a Portuguese stronghold in Morocco, during the two periods in which it was under Portuguese rule, between 1471 and 1550, and again between 1577 and 1589. Based on extensive archival documentation and contemporary chronicles, notably the Annals of Arzila by Bernardo Rodrigues, which the author himself had edited in 1915, David Lopes reconstructs the conquest of the city by King Afonso V himself in 1471, at the head of an armada of 400 ships and 30,000 men (an episode immortalized in the Pastrana Tapestries), the succession of captains who governed it, including the first, D. Henrique de Meneses, killed in combat in 1480, the handover of the city to King Sebastian in 1577 on the occasion of the Battle of Alcácer-Quibir, and its definitive abandonment in 1589 by Philip I, already under the Iberian Union. A fundamental and indispensable work for the study of the Portuguese presence in North Africa. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate