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Beja FA
The Associação de Futebol de Beja ''(Beja Football Association)'' is one of the 22 District Football Associations that are affiliated to the Portuguese Football Federation. The AF Beja administers lower tier football in the district of Beja. Background Associação de Futebol de Beja, commonly referred to as AF Beja, is the governing body for football in the district of Beja. The Football Association is based in Beja. The Association's President is José Mâncio Rosa Soeiro. The organisation was established on 30 March 1925. The leading club up until 1945/46 was Luso Sporting Clube (known as Luso Beja) who won the District Championship on 19 occasions. The club was founded in 1916 and first won the championship in 1924/25 when it was run on an unofficial basis. Competitions Beja clubs compete in the third national level of the Portuguese football league system in Campeonato Nacional de Seniores, competition run by the Portuguese Football Federation. Below the Campeonato N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beja Municipality
Beja () is a city and a municipality in the Alentejo region, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 35,854, in an area of . The city proper had a population of 21,658 in 2001. The municipality is the capital of the Beja District. The present Mayor is Paulo Arsénio, elected by the Socialist Party with an absolute majority in the 2017 Portuguese Local Elections. The municipal holiday is Ascension Day. The Portuguese Air Force has an airbase in the area – the Air Base No. 11. History Situated on a hill, commanding a strategic position over the vast plains of the Baixo Alentejo, Beja was already an important place in antiquity. Already inhabited in Celtic times, the town was later named ''Pax Julia'' by Julius Caesar in 48 BCE, when he made peace with the Lusitanians. He raised the town to be the capital of the southernmost province of Lusitania (Santarém and Braga were the other capitals of the ''conventi''). During the reign of emperor Augustus the thriving town became Pax Augu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taça De Portugal
The Taça de Portugal (; "Cup of Portugal") is an annual association football competition and the premier knockout tournament in Portuguese football. For sponsorship reasons, it has been known as Taça de Portugal Placard since the 2015–16 season. Organised by the Portuguese Football Federation since it was first held in 1938, the competition is open to professional and amateur clubs from the top-four league divisions. Matches are played from August–September to May–June, and the final is traditionally held at the Estádio Nacional in Oeiras, near Lisbon. The winners qualify for the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira (or the runners-up, in case the winners are also the league champions) and the UEFA Europa League (unless they already qualify for the UEFA Champions League through league placing). Before 1938, a similar competition was held since 1922 under the name Campeonato de Portugal ( en, Championship of Portugal), which determined the national champions from among the dif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvito Municipality
Alvito () is a town and a municipality in Beja District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 2,504, in an area of 264.85 km2. The current president municipal chamber is António João Feio Valério. History The Alvito region has been inhabited since the Neolithic, and during the period of Roman domination several villae were established nearby, later occupied by Visigoths and Moors. During the Reconquista, Alvito was conquered by the Portuguese in 1234, being later (1251) donated by King Afonso III to Estêvão Anes, chancellor of the kingdom, who promoted the settlement of the area. The village gained a foral (letter of feudal rights) in 1280, confirmed by King Dinis I in 1283. In 1296 an annual fair was established, attesting the rapid development of the region. In 1387, King John I donated Alvito to knight Diogo Lobo in exchange for his services in the decisive Battle of Aljubarrota (1385), and in 1475 the title of Baron was granted to the rulers of Alvito. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferreira Do Alentejo
Ferreira do Alentejo (), or simply Ferreira, is a town and a municipality in Beja District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 8,255, in an area of 648.25 km2. The present Mayor is Aníbal Coelho Costa, elected by the Socialist Party. The municipal holiday is March 5. Parishes Administratively, the municipality is divided into 4 civil parishes (''freguesias''): * Alfundão e Peroguarda * Ferreira do Alentejo e Canhestros * Figueira dos Cavaleiros * Odivelas Odivelas ( or ) is a city and a municipality in Lisbon metropolitan area, Portugal, in the Lisbon District and the historical and cultural Estremadura Province. The municipality is located 10 km northwest of Lisbon. The present Mayor is Hugo ... References External linksTown Hall official website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entradas
Entradas is a Portuguese town/parish within the boundaries of the municipality of Castro Verde, in the southern Alentejo region. The population in 2011 was 649, in an area of 76.23 km². It received its town charter from Manuel I of Portugal in 1510, and was the county seat until 1836, when it was integrated into the municipality of Castro Verde. Historically, this area has been of a major strategic role by being the old route which linked the river port of Mértola Mértola () is a municipality in southeastern Portuguese Alentejo near the Spanish border. In 2011, the population was 7,274, in an area of approximately : it is the sixth-largest municipality in Portugal. Meanwhile, it is the second-lowest popula ... to the interior of the lower Alentejo, and also because it was the "entrance" of the Campo Braco (White Field), the grazing territory of destination for large herds of cattle and sheep from the 14th to the 17th centuries, in particular, herds of belonging to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vidigueira
Vidigueira ( or ) is a town and a municipality in the District of Beja in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 5,932, in an area of 316.61 km2. The present Mayor is Manuel Rosa Narra, elected by the Unitary Democratic Coalition. The municipal holiday is Ascension Day. The archaeological site of the Roman Ruins of Villa Áulica and Convent of São Cucufate are situated near Vidigueira. Parishes Administratively, the municipality is divided into 4 civil parishes ('' freguesias''): * Pedrógão * Selmes * Vidigueira * Vila de Frades Notable people * Vasco da Gama (c.1460s – 1524) the Portuguese navigator, was made Count of Vidigueira by King Manuel I on the return from his discovery of the maritime route from Europe to India * Achilles Statius (1524 in Vidigueira – 1581) humanist poet and commentator * The father of Baruch Spinoza (1662-1677) the Dutch philosopher, lived in Vidigueira in the 17th century, before escaping from the Portuguese Inquisition to the Dutch Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castro Verde
Castro Verde () is a town and a municipality of the Alentejo region of Portugal (in the historic district of Beja). The population in 2011 was 7,276, in an area of 569.44 km2. Castro Verde is situated in the Baixo Alentejo subregion, within a territory known locally as the ''Campo Branco'' ( en, White Plains). The municipality can be recognized by the local municipal markers along its borders, that appear within its borders to denote its reference as ''A Window on the Plains''; municipal markers appear as stylized house profiles, with an exaggerated window that allows the visitor to see through into the panorama. History The pre-History of the Baixo Alentejo Subregion dates back to 200,000 B.C. when the territory was crossed by migratory Neanderthal peoples from the north of Europe in the Lower Paleolithic period. Until their extinction, around 28,000 B.C., Neanderthal man hunted and foraged in present-day Portugal. Later, the area was home to several cultures due to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabeça Gorda
Cabeça Gorda is a parish of the municipality of Beja, southeast Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of .... The population in 2011 was 1,386, in an area of 78.16 km2. References Freguesias of Beja, Portugal {{Beja-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrancos
Barrancos ( Barranquenho: ''Barrancu'') is a town and a municipality in Portugal. With a population of 1,834 in 2011, it is the least populated municipality in mainland Portugal. Its area is 168.42 km2. The municipality is composed of one parish, being one of the six Portuguese municipalities composed of only one parish, and is located in Beja District, close to the Spanish border. Among its economic activities are agriculture and livestock rising, being a production center for ''presunto'' (dry-cured ham), similar to the jamón ibérico, made from Black Iberian Pig (also known as ''Porco Alentejano''). The present Mayor is António Pica Tereno, elected by the Unitary Democratic Coalition. The municipal holiday is August 28. Barrancos is famous in Portugal for its festival, which takes place each year during the last four days of August, and where traditional bullfighting occurs in the town's main square. History The territory where the Barrancos municipality stands to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amareleja
Amareleja ( or ) is a Portuguese civil parish of the municipality of Moura, in the district of Beja. The population in 2011 was 2,564, in an area of 108.56 km². History Archeological vestiges from the Roman epoch are found in the north of the village until the margins of the River Ardila, but they suggest the fields of Amaraleja were occupied by various generations during the pre-history of the region. Antas ( dolmens), burial tombs, wall paintings, flint implements, vestiges of metal smelting and Bronze Age tombs (carved into the hills) have been discovered by farmers or during road construction. Roman remnants include the pavements of buildings, circular burial tombs with bowls and fragments of bone, coins with the inscriptions of Emperor Claudius, roof tile, masonry and milling stones. In Barranco de Valtamujo there remains of a Roman bridge, that possibly connect to another along the Ardila River, and near the port of Castelo. This bridge provided a daily crossing for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almodôvar
Almodôvar ( or ; ar, المدوّر, al-Mudawwar, the Round one) is a town and a municipality in the District of Beja, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 7,449, in an area of 777.88 km2. The present Mayor is António Bota, a member of the Socialist Party. The town's Museum of Southwestern Writing is featured on episode 1 of the three part documentary ''The Celts: Blood, Iron and Sacrifice'', which was broadcast by the BBC in 2015, and hosted by Alice Roberts and Neil Oliver, featuring stone tables containing what some archeologists believe to be a proto-Celtic language. Parishes The municipality is subdivided into the following parishes: * Aldeia dos Fernandes * Almodôvar e Graça dos Padrões * Santa Clara-a-Nova e Gomes Aires * Rosário * Santa Cruz * São Barnabé History The village of Almodôvar is signaled in medieval Islamic cartography under the name ''al-Mudawwar'' meaning "thing in round" or "surrounded in round". The settlement was rebuilt at the time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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