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Faro| Capital of Faro district, southern Portugal, 217 km/135 mi southeast of Lisbon; population (2001) 41,300. There are tuna and sardine fisheries, and exports include cork and fruit. The town walls are probably Moorish, and there is a cathedral with a fine 13th-century tower. |
| The town was burned by the English in 1596, and it was severely damaged by earthquakes in 1722 and 1755. |
Faro| Southernmost district of Portugal, bounded south and west by the Atlantic Ocean, and east by Spain; area 5,071 sq km/1,958 sq mi; population (1991) 340,100; capital Faro. Products include salt, fruit, and wine; fishing and tourism are important. Faro district is co-extensive with the ancient kingdom of the Algarve, and it includes Cape St Vincent, the southwest extremity of Europe. |
Faro| Town in south-central Yukon Territory, Canada; population (1991) 1,100. It is situated on the Pelly River, 190 km/120 mi north-northeast of Whitehorse, on the south of the Anvil Range. It was established in 1968 along with the open-pit Anvil Dynasty lead and zinc mine. Gold is also extracted in this centre of the territory's mining operations. |
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| All but thirty years ago, certain exceptional circumstances made me very familiar for a time with that bight in the Spanish coast which would be enclosed within a straight line drawn from Faro to Spartel. So while Monsieur Isidor with bodily fingers was holding on to his master's nose, and shaving the lower part of Jos's face, his imagination was rambling along the Green Avenue, dressed out in a frogged coat and lace, and in company with Mademoiselle Reine; he was loitering in spirit on the banks, and examining the barges sailing slowly under the cool shadows of the trees by the canal, or refreshing himself with a mug of Faro at the bench of a beer-house on the road to Laeken. |
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