Baleizão is a

Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ...

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 Port ...

'' ("civil parish") of the

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

of Beja. The population in 2011 was 902,Instituto Nacional de Estatística
/ref> in an area of 139.74 km². The parish contains Monte do Olival ("Hill of the Olive Grove"), where

Catarina Eufémia Catarina Efigénia Sabino Eufémia (; February 13, 1928 to May 19, 1954) was an illiterate harvester from Alentejo, Portugal who was murdered during a worker's strike by lieutenant Carrajola of the Guarda Nacional Republicana in Monte do Olival, ...

was murdered in 1954. She subsequently became a national icon of the resistance against the Estado Novo regime.

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Freguesias of Beja, Portugal {{Beja-geo-stub