Borba Municipality, Portugal
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Borba (), officially the Municipality of Borba (), is a municipality in the District of
Évora Évora ( , ), officially the Very Noble and Ever Loyal City of Évora (), is a city and a municipalities of Portugal, municipality in Portugal. It has 53,591 inhabitants (2021), in an area of . It is the historic capital of the Alentejo reg ...
in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 7,333,Instituto Nacional de Estatística
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Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 4 civil parishes ('' freguesias''): * Borba (Matriz) * Borba (São Bartolomeu) * Orada * Rio de Moinhos


Notable people

* Vítor Norte (born 1951) an actor and voice actor. Vítor Norte, IMDb Database
retrieved 18 June 2021.
* Luís Bilro (born 1971) a Portuguese retired football with 411 club caps


See also

*
Borba DOC Borba is a Portuguese wine region centered on the Borba Municipality in the Alentejo region. The region was initially an '' Indicação de Proveniencia Regulamentada'' (IPR) region, then elevated to ''Denominação de Origem Controlada'' (DOC) st ...


References


External links


Town Hall official website
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