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Abrantes
Abrantes, a town in the provinces of Estremadura, Portugal, situated in a beautiful and fruitful district on the Tagus, about 70 miles N.E. of Lisbon. It is fortified, and commands one of the approaches to the capital. Junot, Napoleon's general, was created Duke of Abrantes.