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 over ...
'' ("civil parish") in
Águeda Municipality
Águeda () is a city and a List of municipalities of Portugal, municipality in Portugal. According to the Portuguese 2011 census, the municipality of Águeda had 47,729 inhabitants, in an area of . The city proper had a population of 14,504 (2001 ...
,
Aveiro District
Aveiro District (, ) is located in the central coastal region of Portugal. The capital of the district is the city of Aveiro, which also serves as the seat of Aveiro Municipality.
Aveiro District is bordered by the Porto District to the north, ...
, Portugal. It had an area of 41.6 km2 and in 2011 had a population of 11,346.
History
In 2013 it was merged with Borralha to form the new freguesia of
Águeda e Borralha
Águeda e Borralha is a ''freguesia'' ("civil parish") in Águeda Municipality, Aveiro District, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 13,576,2009 local elections for the Assembly of the Freguesia, there were 10,328 registered voters, with 5,698 (55.17%) voting and 4,630 (44.83%) abstaining. The
Socialist Party
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got 3,039 votes (53.33%), electing eight members of the Assembly, the
Social Democratic Party
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got 1,495 votes (26.24%), electing four members of the Assembly and the
Democratic and Social Centre – People's Party
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*A member of a Democratic Party:
**Democratic Party (Cyprus) (DCY)
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got 482 votes (8.46%), electing one member of the Assembly. The three remaining lists did not elect any member of the Assembly. As of 31 December 2011, the freguesia had 10,396 registered voters.
Diocese of Aveiro
The Diocese of Aveiro () is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Portugal. It has existed since 1938 when the historical dioceses of Coimbra, Porto, and Viseu were combined. It is a suffragan
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includes the
Parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...
of Águeda as part of the
archpriest
The ecclesiastical title of archpriest or archpresbyter belongs to certain priests with supervisory duties over a number of parishes. The term is most often used in Eastern Orthodoxy and the Eastern Catholic Churches and may be somewhat analogo ...
ship of Águeda.
Built Heritage
The Pillory of Assequins, now fragmented, is located in this former freguesia and is classified as an ''Imóvel de Interesse Público''.
