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Lissabon lost the leading position
Filed Under (english, Historia) by Targenor on 11-09-2009
On hallowenday 1755 there where a churchactivity in Lissabon when the ground started to shake.
One eyewittnes says ”everyone was on their knees praying, whit fear in their eyes they are getting up and trying to called the lord. During their call the final shake took place and completed the devestation.
Lissabon was in this time Europes leading harborcity and a good buisness whit the colonies. The city had about 275 000 inhabitans, the fourth biggest city in europe, after Paris, London and Nepal.
The earthquake took place far out in the atlantic has afterwards been counted to 8.9 on the richterschale, where 9 is the higest number.
Three fird of the city where destroyed, many of those that didn´t die during the eartquake was swept along the flood waters that arrives after the earthquake.
There where also alot of fires in the city efterwards.
Acording to the historians about 70 000 people could have been killed, and the city never remained its leading position.
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