Mortágua ( ) is a municipality in the district of

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, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 9,607,Instituto Nacional de Estatística
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by the Socialist Party.

History

Legend suggests that that village was formed on a lake; settlers recalled that ''Água Morta'' (''dead water'') existed here, but no physiological evidence remains of the body of water. Over time, the name stayed and evolved, becoming the variant today of the local municipality. About from the main village is a hill, covered in vegetation, but whose lateral flank was occupied by a Moorish settlement known as ''Crasto''.J.L. de V. (1895), p.10 Over a cliff archeologists discovered several homes including a building that was defined as a kitchen, on its edge. By 1895, several chapels were situated on this hilltop, which had become known as ''Cabeça da Senhora do Mundo'' (owing to the existence of an image to that invocation).

Geography

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 7 civil parishes ('' freguesias''): * Cercosa * Espinho * Marmeleira * Mortágua, Vale de Remígio, Cortegaça e Almaça * Pala * Sobral * Trezói

Notable people

* Vasco Martins de Sousa (1320s-1387) Lord of Mortágua * Fernanda de Paiva Tomás (1928–1984) a member of the

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, a political prisoner from 1961 to 1970, under the authoritarian Estado Novo regime.

Sport

* Francisco Neto (born 1981) a football manager, currently the head coach of the Portugal women's national football team * Filipe Sarmento (born 1985 in Mortágua) a Portuguese footballer with over 220 club caps

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External links

Municipality official website
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