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Beira

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Beira , region and former province, N central Portugal, S of the Douro River. The old capital was Coimbra . The province extended to the Atlantic coast between the Douro and the Mondego and SE of the Mondego to the upper Tagus. The region is now occupied by the provinces of Beira Alta (capital Viseu ), Beira Baixa (capital Castelo Branco), and part of Beira Litoral (capital Coimbra) and is further subdivided into the districts of Aveiro, Viseu, Coimbra, Guarda, and Castelo Branco. The region is traversed by the Serra da Estrela, Portugal's highest mountain range. Grains, fruits, and olives are grown. Industries include fishing and the manufacture of textiles and forest products. The area had been recovered from the Moors even before Portugal was formed, but Moorish attacks continued into the 13th cent. Later Beira was contested in the incessant Portuguese-Castilian wars.

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Beira

Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Copyright

Beira, Mozambique Named after the former principality and province in northern Portugal to mean ‘Close to Water’ from the Portuguese ribeira ‘river’. Although a Portuguese explorer anchored off the coast in the vicinity in 1487, it was not until 1891 that the Portuguese Mozambique Company founded the port as its headquarters. The former province of Beira is now called Sofala.

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beira see antelope .

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Beira

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

Beira •airer, bearer, carer, Clara, darer, declarer, Demerara, Éire, habanera, Halmahera, parer, Perak, primavera, repairer, Rivera, Riviera, Sarah, scarer, sharer, snarer, sparer, squarer, starer, swearer, tearer, wearer •cause célèbre • torch-bearer •swordbearer • pallbearer • wayfarer •seafarer • capoeira • Phaedra •sacra, simulacra •Libra, vers libre •ex cathedra •chypre, Ypres •palaestra (US palestra) • urethra •joie de vivre •mirror, sirrah •Coimbra • Middlesbrough • Indra •Sintra •aspidistra, sistra •algebra • orchestra • vertebra •Beira, Fujairah, Hegira, Lyra, Myra, naira, palmyra, spirogyra •Hydra • Lycra •begorra, Gomorrah, horror •double entendre • genre • amour propre • Le Nôtre • contra •Cosa Nostra, rostra

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	Beira feels hot breath of competition. (Mozambique's Beira Port) Magazine article from: African Business; 11/1/1995
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