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Alfândega Da Fé
Alfândega da Fé (), officially the Town of Alfândega da Fé (), is a municipality in northeast Portugal. The population in 2011 was 5,104,Instituto Nacional de Estatística in an area of 321.95 km2. History Early archaeological sites, such as Castro hill fort-settlements, can be found scattered throughout the municipality. The municipality has an origin that comes from mixed influences and |
Norte Region, Portugal
The North Region ( ) or Northern Portugal is the most populous region in Portugal, ahead of Lisbon, and the third most extensive by area. The region has 3,576,205 inhabitants according to the 2017 census, and its area is with a density of 173 inhabitants per square kilometre. It is one of five regions of Mainland Portugal ( NUTS II subdivisions). Its main population center is the urban area of Porto, with about one million inhabitants; it includes a larger political metropolitan region with 1.8 million, and an urban-metropolitan agglomeration with 2.99 million inhabitants, including Porto and neighboring cities, such as Braga, Guimarães and Póvoa de Varzim. The Commission of Regional Coordination of the North (CCDR-N) is the agency that coordinates environmental policies, land-use planning, cities and the overall development of this region, supporting local governments and associations. Northern Portugal is a culturally varied region. It is a land of dense vegetation and prof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foral
200px, Foral of Castro Verde - Portugal The ''Carta de Foral'', or simply ''Foral'', was a royal document in Portugal and its former empire, whose purpose was to establish a ''concelho'' (Council) and regulate its administration, borders and privileges. A newly founded town would also need the king's approval through a ''Foral'', in order to be considered one. In this case, the town's administration and privileges would be defined in that document. ''Forais'' were granted between the 12th and the 16th centuries. The ''Foral'' was the basis for municipal foundation, thus the most important event of a city or town's history. It was critical to a successful land settling and an increase in crop yields, by giving more freedom and dignity, via a concession, to farmers, in an age when people were subject to near slave work, as servants of landlords. The ''Foral'' made a ''concelho'' free from feudal control, transferring power down to a neighbours council (''concelho''), with its own ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silkworm
''Bombyx mori'', commonly known as the domestic silk moth, is a moth species belonging to the family Bombycidae. It is the closest relative of '' Bombyx mandarina'', the wild silk moth. Silkworms are the larvae of silk moths. The silkworm is of particular economic value, being a primary producer of silk. The silkworm's preferred food are the leaves of white mulberry, though they may eat other species of mulberry, and even leaves of other plants like the Osage orange. Domestic silk moths are entirely dependent on humans for reproduction, as a result of millennia of selective breeding. Wild silk moths, which are other species of ''Bombyx'', are not as commercially viable in the production of silk. Sericulture, the practice of breeding silkworms for the production of raw silk, has existed for at least 5,000 years in China, whence it spread to India, Korea, Nepal, Japan, and then the West. The conventional process of sericulture kills the silkworm in the pupal stage. The domestic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerejais (Alfândega Da Fé)
Cerejais is a ''freguesia'' ("civil parish") in the municipality of Alfândega da Fé, in continental Portugal. The population in 2011 was 202, in an area of 17.00 km2. History A settlement in the area of Cerejais dates back to the 9th century. The origin of its name is also remotely associated with the ''Ceresales'', ''Cersares'' and ''Cersales'', a zone historically known for the cultivation of cherries and cherry orchards. In 1706, from the writings of Father Carvalho da Costa, the settlement had about 70 homes.João Baptista Vilares (1926) Later (1758), in the '' Memórias Paroquiais'', the clergy in the settlement are represented by the rector of Alfândega da Fé, receiving annual 8$000 reis stipend. By 1759, the lands of Cerejais were owned by the estate of the Marquis of Távora; that year, the Marquess' lands and property were confiscated by the state, stemming from the events of the Távora affair. In 1855, until that year, the parish pertained to the municipali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agrobom, Saldonha E Vale Pereiro
Agrobom, Saldonha e Vale Pereiro is a civil parish in the municipality of Alfândega da Fé, Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share .... It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Agrobom, Saldonha and Vale Pereiro. The population in 2011 was 265,Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE) Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal in an area of 32.60 km². References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freguesia (Portugal)
(), 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, it was also an administrative division of the other Portuguese overseas territories. The civil parishes and communities in England and Wales and in the Spanish autonomous communities of Galicia and Asturias is similar to a in Portugal. The average land area of a Portuguese parish is about and an average population of about 3,386 people. The largest parish by area is Alcácer do Sal (Santa Maria do Castelo e Santiago) e Santa Susana, with a land area of , and the smallest parish by area is São Bartolomeu (Borba), with a land area of . The most populous parish is Algueirão - Mem Martins, with a population of 68,649 people and the least populous is Mosteiro, with a popula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mogadouro
Mogadouro (, ), officially the Town of Mogadouro (; ), is a List of municipalities of Portugal, municipality in Portugal. The population in ''2011'' was 9,542, in an area of 760.65 km2. History The history of Mogadouro is evident in the number of Castro culture, castros that dot the landscape of region from the Neolithic period. In particular are the castros of Oleiros in Bemposta, Vilarinho, São Martinho do Peso, Figueirinha de Travanca, Bruçó and the more recently excavated castro in Vilariça, in the Serra da Castanheira. The Celts passed through this region, leaving behind its art and religion, the so-called ''Cultura aos Berrões''. One of these Celtic tribes, the Zoelae, were responsible for settling many of the lands along the Douro, Sabor River, Sabor and Angueira Rivers. During the Roman period, the region is referred to in art, religion and socio-economic reports, indicating its regional importance. The ''Ara Romana'' to ''Deus Jupiter Depulsori'' (which still ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macedo De Cavaleiros
Macedo de Cavaleiros () is a city and municipality in northeastern Portugal, in Bragança District. The population in 2011 was 15,776, in an area of 699.14 km2. History During antiquity, the region was occupied by the Celts, then Romans and finally the Arab forces of the Umayyad Caliphate, who dominated the region until the Christian Reconquista. The Romans defeated the local hill tribes, and reorganized settlements in the region, influencing local culture and social administration. The territory east of the Tua River, from Mirandela until the confluence of the Douro (which almost represents the district of Bragança) was Romanized, as was all of Iberia. In the 5th century, when the first barbarians invaded from the Pyrenees, this region, which was part of the Roman province of Gallaecia, which was administered and judicially subordinate to the religious courts and chancellery of Asturias. The Roman process of assimilation accelerated after resistance was defeated, and many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vila Flor
Vila Flor () is a municipality in Portugal. Locally referred to as the Portuguese ''Capital of Olive Oil'', Vila Flor is located in the Terra Quente Transmontana, in the southern part of the district of Bragança. The population in 2011 was 6,697,Instituto Nacional de Estatística in an area of . History 
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Moncorvo
Torre de Moncorvo (), officially the Town of Torre de Moncorvo (), is a municipality in the district of Bragança in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 8,572, in an area of 531.56 km2. The present mayor is Nuno Gonçalves, elected by the PSD. Torre de Moncorvo is also a well-developed and promising mining area. Iron ore is mined at the Mua Mine by Aethel Partners. The municipal holiday is March 19. In early November, the directorate-general for energy and geology (DGEG) authorised Aethel to control the Torre de Moncorvo iron mine, a company that hopes to put Portugal in a leading position in European mining Parishes Administratively, the municipality is divided into 13 civil parishes ('' freguesia (Portugal), freguesias''): * Açoreira * Adeganha e Cardanha * Cabeça Boa * Carviçais * Castedo * Felgar e Souto da Velha * Felgueiras e Maçores * Horta da Vilariça * Larinho * Lousa * Mós * Torre de Moncorvo * Urrós e Peredo dos Castelhanos Famous people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parishes
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or more curates, and who operates from a parish church. Historically, a parish often covered the same geographical area as a manor. Its association with the parish church remains paramount. By extension the term ''parish'' refers not only to the territorial entity but to the people of its community or congregation as well as to church property within it. In England this church property was technically in ownership of the parish priest ''ex officio'', vested in him on his institution to that parish. Etymology and use First attested in English in the late 13th century, the word ''parish'' comes from the Old French , in turn from , the Romanisation of the , "sojourning in a foreign land", itself from (''paroikos''), "dwelling beside, st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel I Of Portugal
Manuel I (; 31 May 146913 December 1521), known as the Fortunate (), was King of Portugal from 1495 to 1521. A member of the House of Aviz, Manuel was Duke of Beja and Viseu prior to succeeding his cousin, John II of Portugal, as monarch. Manuel ruled over a period of intensive expansion of the Portuguese Empire owing to the numerous Portuguese discoveries made during his reign. His sponsorship of Vasco da Gama led to the Portuguese discovery of the sea route to India in 1498, resulting in the creation of the Portuguese India Armadas, which guaranteed Portugal's monopoly on the spice trade. Manuel began the Portuguese colonization of the Americas and Portuguese India, and oversaw the establishment of a vast trade empire across Africa and Asia. Manuel established the Casa da Índia, a royal institution that managed Portugal's monopolies and its imperial expansion. He financed numerous famed Portuguese navigators, including Pedro Álvares Cabral (who discovered Brazil), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
