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Verim, Friande E Ajude
Verim, Friande e Ajuda (officially, União das Freguesias de Verim, Friande e Ajuda) is a Portuguese Parish in the Municipality of Póvoa de Lanhoso Póvoa de Lanhoso (, ) is a List of municipalities of Portugal, municipality in the district of Braga (district), Braga, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 21,886, in an area of 134.65 km². The present Mayor is Avelino Silva, elected by th ..., with an area of 9.4 km² and 733 inhabitants (2011). It was created during the administrative reorganization of 2012/2013, resulting from the aggregation of the former parishes of Verim, Friande, and Ajuda. References {{Reflist Freguesias of Póvoa de Lanhoso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Azores and Madeira. It features the westernmost point in continental Europe, and its Iberian portion is bordered to the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean and to the north and east by Spain, the sole country to have a land border with Portugal. Its two archipelagos form two autonomous regions with their own regional governments. Lisbon is the capital and largest city by population. Portugal is the oldest continuously existing nation state on the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times. It was inhabited by pre-Celtic and Celtic peoples who had contact with Phoenicians and Ancient Greek traders, it was ruled by the Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freguesia
''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 co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of Portugal
The municipality ( pt, município or ''concelho'') is the second-level administrative subdivision of Portugal, as defined by the 1976 Constitution. As a general rule, each municipality is further subdivided into parishes (''freguesias''); the municipalities in the north of the country usually have a higher number of parishes. Six municipalities are composed of only one parish, and Barcelos, with 61 parishes, has the most. Corvo is, by law, the only municipality with no parishes. Since the creation of a democratic local administration, in 1976, the Portuguese municipalities have been ruled by a system composed of an executive body (the municipal chamber) and a deliberative body (the municipal assembly). The municipal chamber is the executive body and is composed of the president of the municipality and a number of councillors proportional to the municipality's population. The municipal assembly is composed of the presidents of all the parishes that compose the municipality ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Póvoa De Lanhoso
Póvoa de Lanhoso (, ) is a List of municipalities of Portugal, municipality in the district of Braga (district), Braga, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 21,886, in an area of 134.65 km². The present Mayor is Avelino Silva, elected by the Social Democratic Party (Portugal), Social Democratic Party. The municipal holiday is March 19. Parishes The municipality is subdivided into the following 22 parishes: * Águas Santas e Moure * Calvos e Frades * Campos e Louredo * Covelas (Póvoa de Lanhoso), Covelas * Esperança e Brunhais * Ferreiros (Póvoa de Lanhoso), Ferreiros * Fonte Arcada e Oliveira * Galegos (Póvoa de Lanhoso), Galegos * Garfe * Geraz do Minho * Lanhoso * Monsul * Póvoa de Lanhoso (parish), Póvoa de Lanhoso * Rendufinho * Santo Emilião * São João de Rei * Serzedelo (Póvoa de Lanhoso), Serzedelo * Sobradelo da Goma * Taíde * Travassos (parish), Travassos * Verim, Friande e Ajude * Vilela (Póvoa de Lanhoso), Vilela Notable people * Gonçalo Sampaio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
