Capital of the Algarve (al-Ġarb), Šilb was praised by the geographers for its red-sandstone buildings, its port on the Arade and its poets; the taifa king al-Muʿtamid of Seville had governed it as a young man. It passed definitively to Portugal in 1249.
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