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Amadora (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐmɐˈðoɾɐ] (listen)) is a municipality and urbanized city in the northwest of the Lisbon metropolitan area and 10 km from central Lisbon. The population in 2011 was 175,136, in an area of 23.78 km² (9.2 sq mi). It is the most densely populated municipality in Portugal.

The Alfragide Towers (Portuguese: Torres de Alfragide) are a set of residential buildings in Alfragide, Amadora, Portugal. The complex consists of three residential towers and a shopping centre at ground level, connecting the three buildings. It also contains an underground car park and a complex of swimming pools, currently unused. It is an example of brutalism-influenced architecture.

Alfragide (Portuguese pronunciation: [aɫfɾɐˈʒidɨ]) is a parish in Amadora Municipality. The population in 2011 was 17,044, in an area of 2.51 km².Its patron saint is Our Lady of Fatima. In the extreme south of the parish is located in the first IKEA store in Portugal as part of a major shopping areas of Lisbon. This shopping area also extends to the parishes of Buraca and, specially, Carnaxide (Oeiras).

Algés River (Portuguese pronunciation: [aɫˈʒɛʃ]) flows into the Tagus River in Algés Parish, Portugal. Since Algés grew, some parts of the river were covered, and now it runs under the ground, including the final stretch to the sea.

The Monsanto Tower (Portuguese: Torre de Monsanto) is a 394-foot (120 m) skyscraper in Oeiras, a town and municipality to the west of Lisbon which is part of the Portuguese capital's urban agglomeration. Finished in 2001, the 17-floor building is the second tallest in Portugal, and the tallest in Lisbon. Lisbon-based architectural firm Sua Kay Architects designed the 21,000-square-metre (230,000 sq ft) office building.

Carnaxide e Queijas is a civil parish in the municipality of Oeiras, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Carnaxide and Queijas. The population in 2011 was 36,288, in an area of 8.81 km².

Águas Livres is a Portuguese urban civil parish (freguesia) in the municipality of Amadora. The population in 2011 was 37,426. It was created in 2011, incorporating most of the area from the former parishes of Buraca, Damaia, and Reboleira. It is bordered by the parishes of Alfragide, to the south, Falagueira – Venda Nova, to the north, Venteira to the west and Benfica to the east. It takes its name from the most significant landmark in its territory, the Águas Livres Aqueduct.

On 21 October 2024, Odair Moreno Moniz, a native of Cape Verde and an immigrant in Portugal, died after being shot by a Public Security Police (PSP) officer during a police chase in the Cova da Moura neighbourhood of Amadora. The death of Moniz led to a wave of riots in the Zambujal neighborhood where he lived, which included the looting and arson of two buses. On the night of 22 to 23 October, the riots had spread to six municipalities in the Lisbon metropolitan area, with incidents recorded in sixty police stations in the municipalities of Lisbon, Loures, Amadora, Sintra, Cascais, and Setúbal, which included garbage containers and vehicles being set on fire. Two PSP officers were injured by stone throwing and received hospital treatment.

São Francisco Xavier (English: Saint Francis Xavier) is a former civil parish (freguesia) in the city and municipality of Lisbon, Portugal. It was created on February 7, 1959. At the administrative reorganization of Lisbon on 8 December 2012 it merged with the former parish of Santa Maria de Belém, thus creating the new Belém parish.

Buraca (Portuguese pronunciation: [buˈɾakɐ]) is a former civil parish, located in the municipality of Amadora, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish of Águas Livres. As of the 2011 Census, it had a population of 15 892. It had an area of 1.66 square kilometers. The southern area of the parish included the first Decathlon store in Portugal, integrated in the main shopping areas of the Lisbon metropolitan area. This shopping area also extends to the parishes of Alfragide and Carnaxide. Before the dissolution of the parish, its area was also the location of the headquarters of the Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia (LNEG) and the Directorate-General Environment (DGA).

The 1983 Turkish embassy attack was an attack on the Turkish embassy in Lisbon on 27 July 1983, which resulted in the death of 7 people, including all 5 attackers.

Embassy of Ukraine in Portugal (Ukrainian: Посольство України в Португалії) is the diplomatic mission of Ukraine in Lisbon, Portugal. Since 2015, the Ukrainian ambassador in Portugal has been Inna Ohnivez.