Alcanede

Alcanede
coat of arms map
Basic data
Region :	Alentejo
Sub-region :	Lezíria do Tejo
District :	Santarém
Concelho :	Santarém
Coordinates :	39 ° 25 ′  N , 8 ° 49 ′  W Coordinates: 39 ° 25 ′  N , 8 ° 49 ′  W
Residents:	4547 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	105.84 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	43 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	2025
politics
Website:	www.jf-alcanede.pt

Alcanede is a town and municipality in Portugal .

The castle complex Castelo de Alcanede lies above the village , other sights include the Roman bridge Ponte Romana Alcanede and the parish church.

history

The parish church in Alcanede

The traces of human presence in today's municipal area go back to the Upper Palaeolithic . Earlier theses of a Roman military settlement around 150 BC BC on a subordinate Roman road between Scalabis (today Santarém) and the Serra da Mendiga seem disproved today, a first permanent settlement seems to have arisen here at the earliest in Arab times after 711 AD. The place name probably also comes from this time.

The present-day town was probably founded by King D. Afonso Henriques . This entrusted the knight Gonçalo de Sousa with the task of founding the town in the course of the repopulation in connection with the Reconquista . Later D. Afonso Henriques gave the area to the monks of the Santa Cruz Monastery in Coimbra . Alcanede probably got its first town charter in 1133.

Even during the Reconquista, King D. Sancho I transferred the castle of Alcanede to the Knightly Order of Avis , who were given the entire area after 1218.

Alcanede received new city rights in 1333 from King D. Afonso IV and in 1514 from King D. Manuel I.

During the Napoleonic invasions in 1811 there was a battle near Alcanede, in which the British-Portuguese forces met the retreating French army. Previously, General Massena had occupied the Alcanede area from March 1810 to March 1811, and looting ensued.

After the Liberal Revolution of 1821 and the civil war that followed ( Miguelistenkrieg ), administrative reforms followed. On May 16, 1834, Alcanede became the seat of its own district with the communities of Alcanede, Abrã , Alcobertas , Fráguas and Tremês . On October 24, 1855, the Alcanede district was dissolved again, and since then Alcanede has been a municipality of the Santarém district.

administration

Alcanede is the seat of a municipality ( freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Santarém in the district of Santarém . It has 4,547 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).

The following localities are in the municipality:

Alcanede Aldeia da Ribeira Aldeia de Além Alqueidão do Mato Alqueidão do Rei Barreirinhas Casais da Charneca Casais da Espinheira Casais da Josefa Casal Cordeiro

Casal da Cerâmica Casal da Eira Casal das Patas Casal de Além Casal do Norte Casal Quintino Casal Ribeiro Casal Sá Colos Covão do Vale da Trave

Espinheira Feiteira Mata do Rei Mosteiros Murteira Olaria Oleiros Pé da Pedreira Ponte das Oliveirinhas Prado

Quinta da Rainha Quinta de Santa Irene Quinta do Loureiro Ribeiro de Moínhos Serrada Terreiro das Carvalhas Valdemar Vale da Nogueira Vale da Trave Vale de Água

Vale de Caldas Vale de Grou Vale do Carro Vale do Prado Vale do Soupo Valverde Várzeas Viegas Xartinho Voltas

Web links

Commons : Alcanede  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the municipality of Alcanede
• Alcanede website at the Santarém County Council
• Entry to Alcanede in the Mapas de Portugal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
2. ↑ Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
3. ↑ Website on the history of the municipality , website of the municipal administration of Alcanede, accessed on October 27, 2019