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Amares
Amares () is a municipality in Braga District, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 18,889, in an area of 81.95 km². The present Mayor is Manuel Moreira, elected by the Social Democratic Party. The municipal holiday is June 13. Demographics Parishes The municipality is subdivided into the following parishes: * Amares e Figueiredo * Barreiros * Bico * Caires * Caldelas, Sequeiros e Paranhos * Carrazedo * Dornelas * Ferreiros, Prozelo e Besteiros * Fiscal * Goães * Lago * Rendufe * Santa Maria do Bouro * Santa Marta do Bouro * Torre e Portela * Vilela, Seramil e Paredes Secas Notable people * Gualdim Pais (1118 – 1195) - a crusader, Knight Templar for Afonso Henriques of Portugal. He founded of the city of Tomar Tomar (), also known in English as Thomar (the ancient name of Tomar), is a city and a municipality in the Santarém district of Portugal. The town proper has a population of about 20,000. The municipality population in 2011 was 40,677, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amares
Amares () is a municipality in Braga District, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 18,889, in an area of 81.95 km². The present Mayor is Manuel Moreira, elected by the Social Democratic Party. The municipal holiday is June 13. Demographics Parishes The municipality is subdivided into the following parishes: * Amares e Figueiredo * Barreiros * Bico * Caires * Caldelas, Sequeiros e Paranhos * Carrazedo * Dornelas * Ferreiros, Prozelo e Besteiros * Fiscal * Goães * Lago * Rendufe * Santa Maria do Bouro * Santa Marta do Bouro * Torre e Portela * Vilela, Seramil e Paredes Secas Notable people * Gualdim Pais (1118 – 1195) - a crusader, Knight Templar for Afonso Henriques of Portugal. He founded of the city of Tomar Tomar (), also known in English as Thomar (the ancient name of Tomar), is a city and a municipality in the Santarém district of Portugal. The town proper has a population of about 20,000. The municipality population in 2011 was 40,677, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Pires
Jorge da Costa Pires (born 1 April 1981) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a striker. He spent most of his career in LigaPro, totalling over 324 matches and a record 113 goals for six teams and being top scorer three times. Additionally, he played 42 Primeira Liga games and scored 11 goals in two spells with Portimonense. Club career Born in Amares, Braga District, Pires spent his youth career with FC Amares and S.C. Braga. He made his senior debut with the former in the fourth division before moving into the latter's reserve team in the third. He then had brief lower league spells at C.D. Portosantense, Amares again, A.D. Pontassolense and G.D. Ribeirão. In 2008, Pires joined F.C. Vizela of the second level and a year later Portimonense SC, whom he helped to promotion as runners-up in his first season and then played in Primeira Liga for the first time, his maiden appearance in the competition occurring on 13 August 2010 in a 1–3 away l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amares E Figueiredo
Amares e Figueiredo is a civil parish in the municipality of Amares, Braga District The district of Braga ( pt, Distrito de Braga ) is a district in the northwest of Portugal. The district capital is the city of Braga, and it is bordered by the district of Viana do Castelo in the north, Vila Real in the east, Spain ( Galicia) ..., Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Amares and Figueiredo. The population in 2011 was 2,654,Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE) Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal in an area of 4.56 km². References ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gualdim Pais
Dom Gualdim Pais (1118 – 13 October 1195), a Portuguese crusader, Knight Templar in the service of Afonso Henriques of Portugal. He was the founder of the city of Tomar. Biography Gualdim Pais was born in Amares (a town in the province of Minho, near Braga) in 1118, son of Paio Ramires and Gontrode Soares. He fought alongside Afonso Henriques against the Moors, and received a knighthood by him in 1139, after the Battle of Ourique. He departed for Palestine shortly thereafter, and during the next five years fought as a Knight Templar. He had a prominent role in the siege of the city of Gaza. He also fought in the Siege of Ascalon; in sieges and battles around Sidon and Antioch, and other campaigns of the Zengid–Crusader and Fatimid-Cruzader wars, against the Sultans of Egypt and Syria. He was ordained the fourth Grand Master in Portugal of the Order of Knights Templar in 1157, which then was ruled from Braga. He founded the Castle of Tomar in 1160, then near the frontier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
António Variações
António Joaquim Rodrigues Ribeiro, (3 December 1944 – 13 June 1984) was a Portuguese singer and songwriter. Despite his short-lived career due to his premature death at the age of thirty-nine, using the stage name of António Variações, he became one of the most culturally significant performing artists of recent Portuguese history. His recorded works blended contemporary music genres with traditional Portuguese rhythms and melodies, creating music which for many is symbolic of the liberalization that occurred in Portuguese society after the Carnation Revolution of 1974. The original and provocative nature of his recorded works has led to him being widely recognized as one of the most innovative artists in the recent history of Portuguese popular music. Early life António Variações was born in Lugar do Pilar, in the small village of Fiscal (Amares, Braga), the fifth of ten children of Deolinda de Jesus and Jaime Ribeiro. As a child, his love of music often took him aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caldelas, Sequeiros E Paranhos
Caldelas, Sequeiros e Paranhos is a civil parish in the municipality of Amares, Braga District The district of Braga ( pt, Distrito de Braga ) is a district in the northwest of Portugal. The district capital is the city of Braga, and it is bordered by the district of Viana do Castelo in the north, Vila Real in the east, Spain ( Galicia) ..., Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Caldelas, Sequeiros and Paranhos. The population in 2011 was 1,187,Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE) Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal in an area of 11.37 km². References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferreiros, Prozelo E Besteiros
Ferreiros, Prozelo e Besteiros is a civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ... in the municipality of Amares, Braga District, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Ferreiros, Prozelo and Besteiros. The population in 2011 was 4,573,Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE) Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal in an area of 7.34 km². References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrazedo (Amares)
Carrazedo is a civil parish in the municipality of Amares Amares () is a municipality in Braga District, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 18,889, in an area of 81.95 km². The present Mayor is Manuel Moreira, elected by the Social Democratic Party. The municipal holiday is June 13. Demographic ..., Portugal. The population in 2011 was 732, in an area of 2.71 km². References Freguesias of Amares {{Braga-geo-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiscal (Amares)
Fiscal is a Parishes of Portugal, parish in Amares Municipality in the Braga District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 718, in an area of 3.90 km². Fiscal is the birthplace of Portuguese singer António Ribeiro, mostly known as António Variações. Being homaged with a bust located in his birthplace of Fiscal and the name of a street in the city of Amares. References Freguesias of Amares {{Braga-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caires Parish
Caires is a civil parish in the municipality of Amares, Braga District The district of Braga ( pt, Distrito de Braga ) is a district in the northwest of Portugal. The district capital is the city of Braga, and it is bordered by the district of Viana do Castelo in the north, Vila Real in the east, Spain ( Galicia) ..., Portugal. The population in 2011 was 868, in an area of 4.72 km². References Freguesias of Amares {{Braga-geo-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rendufe (Amares)
Rendufe is a parish in Amares Municipality in the Braga District The district of Braga ( pt, Distrito de Braga ) is a district in the northwest of Portugal. The district capital is the city of Braga, and it is bordered by the district of Viana do Castelo in the north, Vila Real in the east, Spain ( Galicia) ... in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 1,124, in an area of 3.06 km². References Freguesias of Amares {{Braga-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Braga District
The district of Braga ( pt, Distrito de Braga ) is a district in the northwest of Portugal. The district capital is the city of Braga, and it is bordered by the district of Viana do Castelo in the north, Vila Real in the east, Spain ( Galicia) in the northeast and Porto in the south. Its area is and it has a population of 831,368. Municipalities The district comprises 14 municipalities: * Amares * Barcelos * Braga * Cabeceiras de Basto * Celorico de Basto * Esposende * Fafe * Guimarães * Póvoa de Lanhoso * Terras de Bouro * Vieira do Minho * Vila Nova de Famalicão * Vila Verde * Vizela Geography The district of Braga has a very rugged terrain, dominated by high altitudes to the east, close to the Spanish border and the border with the Vila Real district, and going down towards the western coast, cutting through the valleys of several rivers that flow from the north-east to the south-west. The highest altitudes are found in the Serra Amarela (1,361m), on the border wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
