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Penamacor
Penamacor ( or ) is a municipality in the district of Castelo Branco in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 5,682, in an area of . The mayor is António Luís Beites Soares. The municipal holiday is Easter Monday. Parishes Administratively, the municipality is divided into 9 civil parishes ('' freguesias''): * Aldeia do Bispo, Águas e Aldeia de João Pires * Aranhas * Benquerença * Meimão * Meimoa * Pedrógão de São Pedro e Bemposta * Penamacor * Salvador * Vale da Senhora da Póvoa Notable people * António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches (1699 in Penamacor – 1783 in Paris) a physician, philosopher and encyclopédiste. * Francisco Cunha Leal (1888 in Pedrógão – 1970) politician during the Portuguese First Republic; 84th Prime Minister of Portugal, 1921/1922. * Joaquim Furtado (born 1948 in Penamacor) a journalist, reporter, TV anchor and documentary film director. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
António José Seguro
António José Martins Seguro (born 11 March 1962) is a Portuguese politician for the Socialist Party (PS). Seguro was Secretary General of the PS from 2011 until September 2014, and he was the leader of the largest opposition party in the Portuguese Parliament. Early life and education Seguro was born on 11 March 1962 in Penamacor. He entered politics at a very young age and became a member of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS) as a youth. He attended the 1st cycle program in business organization and management at the ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute, but he did not graduate. Seguro has a degree in international relations awarded later by the Autonomous University of Lisbon. Career Seguro became involved in political activities from a very young age, always linked to the Socialist Party (PS). He was successively secretary general of Socialist Youth, president of the National Youth Council and chairman of the Youth Forum of the European Communities. He was first elected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches
António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches (7 March 1699, – 14 October 1783) was an 18th-century Portuguese physician, philosopher and encyclopédiste. He was a '' cristão novo'' of Jewish descent, probably a practising Jew. He studied at the universities of Coimbra and Salamanca. He fled Portugal after being targeted by the Inquisition. Sanches moved to London. He then went to Leyden University where he completed his formation under the direction of Herman Boerhaave. He subsequently worked as a physician in various European countries. He was among the three physicians that empress Anna of Russia asked the latter to recommend to her in 1731. Appointed doctor of the Russian army, he distinguished himself before becoming a court physician. After more than 15 years of stay in Russia, he left the country in 1748 after empress Elizabeth Petrowna had denounced two of his doctor colleagues as Jews. Having had the chance, amid the daily proscriptions which he witnessed to be allowed to leave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castelo Branco District
Castelo Branco District ( pt, Distrito de Castelo Branco ) is located in Central Portugal. Its capital is Castelo Branco, Portugal, Castelo Branco, which is now also its most populous city, overtaking Covilhã, which was once the largest city, in the late 2010s. It has an area of (4th largest in Portugal), and a population of 225,916 inhabitants. Municipalities The district is composed of 11 municipalities of Portugal, municipalities: * Belmonte Municipality, Belmonte * Castelo Branco Municipality, Castelo Branco * Covilhã Municipality, Covilhã * Fundão Municipality, Portugal, Fundão * Idanha-a-Nova Municipality, Idanha-a-Nova * Oleiros Municipality, Castelo Branco, Oleiros * Penamacor Municipality, Penamacor * Proença-a-Nova Municipality, Proença-a-Nova * Sertã Municipality, Sertã * Vila de Rei Municipality, Vila de Rei * Vila Velha de Ródão Municipality, Vila Velha de Ródão Summary of votes and seats won in national elections since 1976 , - class="unsortable" !r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joaquim Furtado
Joaquim da Silva Furtado (Penamacor, 1948) is a Portuguese journalist, reporter, television anchor and documentary film director. He worked during almost all his entire career for state-run RTP television network, including in RTP 2 for many years. He became a well-known media personality during the Carnation Revolution military coup on April 25, 1974. On the first hours of that day, he was working as a broadcaster in the Rádio Clube Português (RCP) radio station when the revolutionary Armed Forces Movement (MFA) took the power in order to overthrow the Estado Novo regime, and Furtado read the first communiqué of the rebellious military officers. In the 2000s he achieved wide popularity in Portugal after directing the documentary '' A Guerra'', a thoroughly detailed description of the events around the Portuguese Colonial War (1961-1974).p117 2008 "This initiative was followed the day after by the first episode of a prime-time 18-episode documentary on the conflict by the j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Cunha Leal
Francisco Pinto da Cunha Leal (22 August 1888 – 26 April 1970) was a Portuguese politician during the period of the Portuguese First Republic The First Portuguese Republic ( pt, Primeira República Portuguesa; officially: ''República Portuguesa'', Portuguese Republic) spans a complex 16-year period in the history of Portugal, between the end of the period of constitutional monarchy .... He served as 84th Prime Minister of Portugal between 1921 and 1922. References 1888 births 1970 deaths People from Penamacor Nationalist Republican Party (Portugal) politicians Prime Ministers of Portugal Finance ministers of Portugal {{Portugal-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castelo Branco (district)
Castelo Branco District ( pt, Distrito de Castelo Branco ) is located in Central Portugal. Its capital is Castelo Branco, which is now also its most populous city, overtaking Covilhã, which was once the largest city, in the late 2010s. It has an area of (4th largest in Portugal), and a population of 225,916 inhabitants. Municipalities The district is composed of 11 municipalities: * Belmonte * Castelo Branco * Covilhã * Fundão * Idanha-a-Nova * Oleiros * Penamacor * Proença-a-Nova * Sertã * Vila de Rei * Vila Velha de Ródão Summary of votes and seats won in national elections since 1976 , - class="unsortable" !rowspan=2, Parties!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%!!S , - class="unsortable" align="center" !colspan=2 , 1976 !colspan=2 , 1979 !colspan=2 , 1980 !colspan=2 , 1983 !colspan=2 , 1985 !colspan=2 , 1987 !colspan=2 , 1991 !colspan=2 , 1995 !colspan=2 , 1999 !colspan=2 , 2002 !colspan=2 , 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beira Baixa (intermunicipal Community)
The Comunidade Intermunicipal da Beira Baixa () is an administrative division in eastern Portugal. It was created in October 2013 out of the former ''Comunidade Intermunicipal da Beira Interior Sul'', created in March 2009. Since January 2015, Beira Baixa is also a NUTS3 subregion of Centro Region The Central Region ( pt, Região do Centro, ) or Central Portugal is one of the statistical regions of Portugal. The cities with major administrative status inside this region are Coimbra, Aveiro, Viseu, Caldas da Rainha, Leiria, Castelo Branco, ..., that covers the same area as the intermunicipal community. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centro Region, Portugal
The Central Region ( pt, Região do Centro, ) or Central Portugal is one of the NUTS statistical regions of Portugal, statistical regions of Portugal. The cities with major administrative status inside this region are Coimbra, Aveiro, Portugal, Aveiro, Viseu, Caldas da Rainha, Leiria, Castelo Branco, Portugal, Castelo Branco, Covilhã, Torres Vedras and Guarda, Portugal, Guarda. It is one of the seven Regions of Portugal (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, NUTS II subdivisions). It is also one of the regions of Europe, as given by the European Union for statistical and Geography, geographical purposes. Its area totals . As of 2011, its population totalled 2,327,026 inhabitants, with a population density of 82 inhabitants per square kilometre. History Inhabited by the Lusitanians, an Proto-Indo-Europeans, Indo-European people living in the western Iberian Peninsula, the Roman Republic, Romans settled in the region and colonized it as a part of the Roman Province of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freguesia (Portugal)
''Freguesia'' (), usually translated as "parish" or "civil parish", is the third-level administrative subdivision of Portugal, as defined by the 1976 Constitution. It is also the designation for local government jurisdictions in the former Portuguese overseas territories of Cape Verde and Macau (until 2001). In the past, was also an administrative division of the other Portuguese overseas territories. The ''parroquia'' in the Spanish autonomous communities of Galicia and Asturias is similar to a ''freguesia''. A ''freguesia'' is a subdivision of a ''município'' (municipality). Most often, a parish takes the name of its seat, which is usually the most important (or the single) human agglomeration within its area, which can be a neighbourhood or city district, a group of hamlets, a village, a town or an entire city. In cases where the seat is itself divided into more than one parish, each one takes the name of a landmark within its area or of the patron saint from the usually cot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easter Monday
Easter Monday refers to the day after Easter Sunday in either the Eastern or Western Christian traditions. It is a public holiday in some countries. It is the second day of Eastertide. In Western Christianity, it marks the second day of the Octave of Easter, and in Eastern Christianity it marks the second day of Bright Week. Religious observances Eastern Christianity In the Eastern Orthodox Church and Byzantine Rite Catholic Churches, this day is called "Bright Monday" or "Renewal Monday". The services, as in the rest of Bright Week, are quite different from during the rest of the year and are similar to the services on Pascha (Easter Sunday) and include an outdoor procession after the Divine Liturgy; while this is prescribed for all days of that week, often they are only celebrated on Monday and maybe a couple of other days in parish churches, especially in non-Orthodox countries. Also, when the calendar date of the feast day of a major saint, ''e.g.'', St. George or the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese First Republic
The First Portuguese Republic ( pt, Primeira República Portuguesa; officially: ''República Portuguesa'', Portuguese Republic) spans a complex 16-year period in the history of Portugal, between the end of the period of constitutional monarchy marked by the 5 October 1910 revolution and the 28 May 1926 ''coup d'état''. The latter movement instituted a military dictatorship known as ''Ditadura Nacional'' (national dictatorship) that would be followed by the corporatist '' Estado Novo'' (new state) regime of António de Oliveira Salazar. The sixteen years of the First Republic saw nine presidents and 44 ministries, and were altogether more of a transition between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Estado Novo than they were a coherent period of governance. Religion The First Republic was intensely anti-clerical. Historian Stanley Payne points out, "The majority of Republicans took the position that Catholicism was the number one enemy of individualist middle-class radicalism a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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