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Alda Santos Victor
Alda Soares de Melo Cardoso dos Santos Victor (born 1921 or 1922) was one of the so-called "Magnificent Five" Portuguese women who were elected in December 1976 as municipal mayors in the first election for mayors in Portugal after the April 1974 Carnation Revolution. She was re-elected on two further occasions. Early life Victor was born in Aveiro in 1921 or 1922. She married a magistrate in 1940 and travelled around the country, accompanying him on his various postings for 14 years before moving to the Portuguese capital of Lisbon. The couple had one daughter. Political career At the time of the 1976 municipal elections, she received a delegation from the centre-right CDS – People's Party from Vagos, a municipality in the Aveiro District, who asked her to consider running for election as mayor. Their preference was apparently for her husband, who came from the village of Soza in the municipality, but as he had had connections with the '' Estado Novo'' regime that had been ove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aveiro, Portugal
Aveiro ( or ) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. In 2021, the population was 80,880, in an area of : it is the second most populous city in the Centro Region of Portugal (after Coimbra). Along with the neighbouring city of Ílhavo, Aveiro is part of an urban agglomeration that includes 120,000 inhabitants, making it one of the most important populated regions by density in the North Region, and primary centre of the Intermunicipal Community of Aveiro and Baixo Vouga. Administratively, the president of the municipal government is José Ribau Esteves, elected by coalition between the Social Democratic Party and the Democratic Social Centre, who governs the ten civil parishes ( pt, freguesias). History The presence of human settlement in the territory of Aveiro extends to the period associated with the great dolmens of pre-history, which exist in most of the region. The Latinised toponym ‘'Averius'’ derived from the Celtic word ''aber'' (river-mouth, etym.< Brythonic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
