Spain and Portugal - River Duro
Spain and Portugal - River Duro - View down river - scrubland, tall chimney on left, terraced ? hill side on right, hills in background. Part of Box 149 Boswell collection - Portugal and Spain. The name, Latinized Durius, may have come from the Celtic tribes that inhabited the area before Roman times: the Celtic root is *dubro- and in modern Welsh d?r is water with cognate dobhar in Irish. In Roman times, the river was personified as a god, Durius
Picture No
11059028
Media ID
44928725
Size
4813px x 3823px
(7.4MB)
Credit
©The Boswell Collection, Bexley Heritage Trust / Mary Evans
Source
Unattributed Lantern Slide from the Boswell Collection, Bexley Heritage Trust
Date
circa 1900
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