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    CITÂNIA DE BRITEIROS, PORTUGAL

    Feb 12, 2022 2 minutes
    BY MARLEY BROWN

    overing roughly 50 acres on a high outcrop with sweeping views of the Ave River Valley, a hillfort site in northwest Portugal known as Citânia de Briteiros was home to more than 1,000 people between around 200 B.C. and A.D. 300. Archaeologists have castros

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