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Évora District
Évora District ( ) is located in Alentejo, in southern Portugal. The district capital is the city of Évora. It borders Spain. Municipalities The district is composed by 14 municipalities: * Alandroal * Arraiolos * Borba * Estremoz * Évora * Montemor-o-Novo * Mora * Mourão * Portel * Redondo * Reguengos de Monsaraz * Vendas Novas * Viana do Alentejo * Vila Viçosa All 14 municipalities is divided into 69 parishes or freguesias. Summary of votes and seats won 1976–2022 , - 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 , 2005 !colspan=2 , 2009 !colspan=2 , 2011 !colspan=2 , 2015 !colspan=2 , 2019 !colspan=2 , 2022 , - , align="left ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Districts Of Portugal
The Districts of Portugal () are the most important first-level administrative subdivisions of continental Portugal. Currently, mainland Portugal is divided into 18 districts. As an administrative division, each district serves mainly as the area of jurisdiction of a Civil Government, civil governor, who acts as the local delegate of the Government of Portugal, Central Government of Portugal. Overview The Districts of Portugal were established by a royal decree of 18 July 1835. On the Portuguese mainland, they correspond to the current districts, with the exception of Setúbal District, which is the result of a split of Lisbon District in 1926. This decree did not affect the then extensive colonial empire. The 1976 Constitution of Portugal, Portuguese Constitution specifies that Portugal has only, as first-level divisions, the Autonomous Regions of Portugal, autonomous regions (Azores and Madeira) and the administrative divisions of Portugal, administrative regions (to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mora, Portugal
Mora (), officially the Town of Mora (), is a town and municipality in Évora District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 4,978, in an area of 443.95 km2. The present Mayor is Paula Cristina Calado Chuço, elected by the Socialist Party in 2021. The municipal holiday is Easter Monday Easter Monday is the second day of Eastertide and a public holiday in more than 50 predominantly Christian countries. In Western Christianity it marks the second day of the Octave of Easter; in Eastern Christianity it marks the second day of Br .... Climate Parishes Administratively, the municipality is divided into 4 civil parishes ('' freguesias''): * Brotas * Cabeção * Mora * Pavia Gallery Image:Igreja da Misericórdia de Mora.JPG, Main church of Mora Notable people * José Pedro Biléu (born 1932 in Mora) a former Portuguese footballer with 303 caps with Lusitano de Évora References External linksTown Hall official website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Renewal Party (Portugal)
The Democratic Renewal Party (, , PRD; also ''Democratic Renovator Party'') was a list of political parties in Portugal, political party in Portugal, founded in 1985 with the political support of the then independent President of Portugal, President of the Republic, Ramalho Eanes, and lasting until 2000. At the time of its foundation, it was meant to "moralize Portuguese political life" and the party positioned itself in the Centrism, political centre. Its first leader was HermÃnio Martinho. History A short time after its foundation, the PRD profited from the dissolution of the Portuguese parliament, occupied at the time by Central Block, a grand coalition between the Socialist Party (Portugal), Socialist Party (PS) and the Social Democratic Party (Portugal), Social Democratic Party (PSD), from both of which the PRD included dissidents (for example, on the PS side, José Medeiros Ferreira, former foreign Minister in a Mário Soares government and also a supporter of the centre-ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unitary Democratic Coalition
The Unitary Democratic Coalition (, CDU) is an electoral and political coalition between the Portuguese Communist Party () and the Ecologist Party "The Greens" ( Portuguese: Partido Ecologista "Os Verdes" or PEV). The coalition also integrates the political movement Democratic Intervention (). The coalition was formed in 1987 in order to run to the simultaneous legislative election and European Parliament election that were held on July 19 of that year. It achieved its best result in the 1987 elections both nationally and locally. From 1991 until 2019, the party consistently won between six and ten percent of the national vote in elections to the Assembly of the Republic until 2022 and 2024, in which the coalition dropped below 5% nationally for the first time. The coalition supported the minority Socialist Costa Government from 2015 until 2019 with a confidence and supply agreement. History Since the beginning of the coalition, the member parties have never participate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portugal Ahead
The PSD/CDS coalition (, PPD/PSD.CDS-PP) is a recurring conservative political and electoral alliance in Portugal formed by the Social Democratic Party (PPD/PSD) and CDS – People's Party (CDS-PP). Though the history of coalition between the two parties stretches back over 40 years, the parties have not run together in most elections and, when they did so, they always retained their own autonomous parliamentary groups afterwards. History PSD and CDS were founded after the 1974 Revolution that overthrew the Estado Novo dictatorship. Both parties have had a close affinity for the most part of their existence. Previous to any electoral alliance, they both endorsed the same presidential candidate in the first democratic presidential election of 1976, Ramalho Eanes, who also had the backing of the Socialist Party. The first time the two parties were together in a coalition was in the general and local elections of 1979, under the Democratic Alliance banner, albeit along with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Alliance (Portugal, 1979)
The Democratic Alliance (, AD) was a centre-right political alliance, in Portugal composed of the Social Democratic Party (Portugal), Social Democratic Party (PSD), CDS – People's Party (CDS–PP) and the People's Monarchist Party (Portugal), People's Monarchist Party (PPM). It existed between 1979 and 1983, and was Democratic Alliance (Portugal, 2024), refounded for the 2024 Portuguese legislative election, 2024 legislative election. After its first official dissolution, the coalition was continued to operated in local elections after 1989 and presented lists across the country in every single local election after 2001. In the first creation, the alliance was composed of the Social Democratic Party (Portugal), Social Democratic Party (PSD), the CDS – People's Party, Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) and the People's Monarchist Party (Portugal), People's Monarchist Party (PPM), including also a group of dissidents of the right wing of the Socialist Party (Portugal), Socialist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Democratic Party (Portugal)
The Social Democratic Party ( , PSD) is a liberal-conservative political party in Portugal that is currently the country's ruling party. Commonly known by its colloquial initials PSD, on ballot papers its initials appear as its official form PPD/PSD, with the first three letters coming from the party's original name, the Democratic People's Party (, PPD). A party of the centre-right, the PSD is one of the three major parties in Portuguese politics, its rivals being the Socialist Party (PS) on the centre-left and the far-right Chega (CH) party. The PSD was founded in 1974, two weeks after the Carnation Revolution. In 1976, the party adopted its current name. In 1979, the PSD allied with centre-right parties to form the Democratic Alliance and won that year's election. One year later, the party's founder and then Prime Minister, Francisco Sá Carneiro died in a plane crash. After the 1983 general election, the party formed a grand coalition with the Socialist Party, kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socialist Party (Portugal)
The Socialist Party ( , PS) is a social democracy, social democratic List of political parties in Portugal, political party in Portugal. It was founded on 19 April 1973 in the German city of Bad Münstereifel by militants who were at the time with the Portuguese Socialist Action (). The PS is a member of the Socialist International, Progressive Alliance and Party of European Socialists, and has eight members in the European Parliament within the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats group during the Tenth European Parliament, 10th European Parliament. The party won the 1976 Portuguese legislative election, 1976 general election and formed the I Constitutional Government of Portugal, first constitutional government after the 1974 revolution, with Mário Soares as prime minister. However, the government was unstable and fell in 1978. The PS lost the 1979 Portuguese legislative election, 1979 election, but returned to power in 1983 Portuguese legislative election, 1983, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vila Viçosa
Vila Viçosa () is a town and a municipality in the Évora (district), District of Évora, Alentejo in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 8,319, in an area of 194.86 km². The municipal holiday is August 16. Parishes Administratively, the municipality is divided into four civil parishes (''freguesia (Portugal), freguesias''): * Bencatel * Ciladas * Nossa Senhora da Conceição e São Bartolomeu * Pardais History The area of Vila Viçosa has been inhabited since Classical Antiquity, Antiquity, and it was the site of a small settlement in Hispania, Roman times. The region was part of the Visigoths, Visigoth Kingdom and in the eighth century came under Moorish control after the Umayyad conquest of Hispania, Muslim conquest of Hispania. Moorish domination ended in 1217, when the region was reconquered by the Order of Aviz, a military order of knighthood that reclaimed large parts of Southern Portugal to the Christians. The order promoted the settlement of Christians in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viana Do Alentejo
Viana do Alentejo () is a municipality in the District of Évora in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 5,743, in an area of 393.67 km2. The present Mayor is Bernardino Bengalinha Pinto, elected by the Socialist Party. The municipal holiday is January 13. Climate Viana do Alentejo has a Mediterranean climate (Köppen: ''Csa'') with mild, rainy winters and hot to very hot, dry summers. Parishes Administratively, the municipality is divided into 3 civil parishes ('' freguesias''): * Aguiar * Alcáçovas * Viana do Alentejo Notable residents Notable people from Viana do Alentejo include: * Joana da Gama (c.1520 – 1586) a Portuguese writer. * Duarte Lobo (ca.1565 – 1646) a Portuguese composer. * Aleixo de Abreu (1568–1630) a Portuguese physician and tropical pathologist. * António Francisco Cardim (1596–1659) a Jesuit priest, missionary and historian in the Far East. * António Banha (1941-2011) actor. Twin towns Viana do Alentejo is twinned with: * Igaras ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vendas Novas
Vendas Novas (), officially the City of Vendas Novas (), is a municipality in the District of Évora in Portugal. The population in 2021 was 11,245, in an area of 222.39 km2. The city has 10,625 inhabitants. The present Mayor is Valentino Salgado Cunha, elected by the Socialist Party. The municipal holiday is September 7. History A hoard of prehistoric objects, including two trapezoid-shaped plaques with geometric designs, was found underneath a hill by labourers in the mid nineteenth century during the construction of the railway line between Vendas Novas and Beja. They are since 1862 kept at the British Museum The British Museum is a Museum, public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human cu .... Parishes Administratively, the municipality is divided into 2 civil parishes ('' freguesias''): * Landeira * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reguengos De Monsaraz
Reguengos de Monsaraz (), officially the Municipality of Reguengos de Monsaraz (), is a municipality in Évora District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 10,828, in an area of 464.00 km2. The City of Reguengos de Monsaraz proper has a population of 7,308. The present Mayor is José Calixto, elected by the Socialist Party. The municipal holiday is June 13. Reguengos de Monsaraz is the second largest city in the district of Évora (the largest city in the suburban area of Évora), constituting one of the four municipalities that make up the suburban area of Évora, which are Arraiolos, Montemor-o-Novo, Reguengos de Monsaraz and Viana of the Alentejo. Parishes Administratively, the municipality is divided into 4 civil parishes ('' freguesias''): * Campo e Campinho * Corval * Monsaraz * Reguengos de Monsaraz Climate Tourism The history of Reguengos is closely linked to that of Monsaraz, an ancient village that is the seat of a municipality that is one of the most beautif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
