Baleizão is a Portuguese ''

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") of the

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

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, 1928May 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, Ba ...

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