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Miravet
Municipality in Catalonia, Spain From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Miravet (Catalan pronunciation: [miraˈβet]) is a municipality in the comarca of Ribera d'Ebre in the Province of Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. It has a population of 688 (register office, 2024) .
The village and the castle was founded by the Moors and rebuilt by the Knights Templar and transformed into a fortress-monastery, after the conquest of 1153. It is considered to be the largest fortified complex in Catalonia[citation needed], and one of the best examples of Romanesque, religious and military, architecture of the Templar order in the whole Western world.[citation needed]
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In the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 it was one of the scenes of the Battle of the Ebro. The 4th November 1938, the fascists occupied Miravent and continued east of the Ebro river.

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