Alcanena

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Alcanena
coat of arms map
Alcanena coat of arms
Alcanena (Portugal)
Alcanena
Basic data
Region : Centro
Sub-region : Médio Tejo
District : Santarém
Concelho : Alcanena
Coordinates : 39 ° 28 ′  N , 8 ° 40 ′  W Coordinates: 39 ° 28 ′  N , 8 ° 40 ′  W
Residents: 4158 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 10.36 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 401 inhabitants per km²
politics
Mayor : António Armando Frazão Silva ( PS )
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Alcanena
Largo António Machado Baptista, n.º 6
2380-036 Alcanena
Alcanena district
flag map
Flag of Alcanena Location of the Alcanena district
Residents: 13,868 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 127.32 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 109 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities : 7th
administration
Administration address: Câmara Municipal de Alcanena
Praça 8 de Maio
2380-037 Alcanena
President of the Câmara Municipal: Fernanda Maria Pereira Asseiceira ( PS )
Website: www.cm-alcanena.pt

Alcanena is a small town in Portugal .

View of Alcanena

geography

Alcanena is about 50 km from the Atlantic Ocean to the west and about 30 km north of the district capital Santarém and 23 km south of the famous pilgrimage site of Fátima .

It is located in the north of the historical Ribatejo province , between the Santo António and Mira Daire caves , towards Fátima. The north of the district has been part of the Parque Natural das Serras de Aire e Candeeiros (PNSAC), the "Natural Park of the Mountains of Aire and Candeeiros" , since May 4, 1979 .

In the prehistoric Jardim Jurássico , Parque Natural das Serras de Aire e Candeeiros

history

The origins of the place lie in the Arab settlement from the 8th century AD. In addition to the traditional skin processing and leather production, the place also owes its name to these origins. The two prevailing theories of derivation see Alcalina (roughly “dry head”) and al-Kinan (roughly “overshadowed place”) as the original Arabic place names.

During the Reconquista , Alcanena fell under D. Sancho I to the young kingdom of Portugal and was repopulated. In 1353 Alcanena existed again as a small place. In the royal surveys of 1527, the parish of Alcalena, Peral and Gouxaria had 40 households, which corresponded to about 200 people. In the registers of 1758 Alcalena was listed as a separate municipality in the Torres Novas district with 1067 inhabitants. The community continued to flourish. A sign of this was the population's demand for a fair , which was approved by the district administration on October 27, 1782 and set for June 29. In 1788 a weekly market was set up every Wednesday. From 1792 there is also a record of the first factory in Alcanena that manufactured soles and enjoyed government privileges under Prime Minister Marquês de Pombal .

The Napoleonic invasions at the beginning of the 19th century, which particularly raged in this region in front of the Torres Vedras lines around 1810 , but also the Liberal Revolution in 1822 and the subsequent Miguelistenkrieg were only temporary obstacles to the growth of the place. Between 1767 and 1867 doubled the population of Alcanenas almost. This also gave rise to the desire for independence for the community, which still belonged to Torres Novas. After the residents were partisans of the Liberals in the 1822 revolution, the emerging idea of ​​a republic also became popular among them . The motto “For the country, the republic, for Alcanena the circle” (Portuguese: Para o País a República, para Alcanena o concelho ) spread here. After the Portuguese Republic was proclaimed in 1910, Alcanena became an independent district on May 8, 1914, when it was spun off from Torres Novas. At the same time it was elevated to a small town ( Vila ).

administration

The circle

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Alcanena is the administrative seat of a district of the same name ( concelho ) in the Santarém district . On June 30, 2011 the district had 13,868 inhabitants on an area of ​​127.3 km².

The neighboring areas are (starting clockwise in the north): Batalha , Vila Nova de Ourém , Torres Novas , Santarém and Porto de Mós .

View of Vila Moreira

With the regional reform in September 2013, several municipalities were merged into new municipalities, so that the number of municipalities decreased from ten to seven.

The Alcanena district is made up of the following seven municipalities ( Freguesias ) :

Alcanena district
local community Population
(2011) 		Area
km² 		Density of
population / km² 		LAU
code
Alcanena e Vila Moreira 5.105 15.43 331 140211
Bugalhos 1,084 16.46 66 140202
Malhou, Louriceira e Espinheiro 1,909 34.46 55 140212
Minde 3,293 21.14 156 140206
Moitas Venda 866 6.75 128 140207
Monsanto 886 18.46 48 140208
Serra de Santo António 725 14.62 50 140209
Alcanena district 13,868 127.32 109 1402

Population development

Population in the Alcanena district (1920–2011)
1920 1930 1960 1981 1991 2001 2004 2011
10.207 11,122 14,773 14,287 14,373 14,600 14,763 13,884

Municipal holiday

  • Ascension of Christ

Town twinning

traffic

Long-distance transport

The connection to the A1 autobahn and the junction with the A23 autobahn, 4 km away, are the district's closest connections to the country's trunk road network. The national road N361 passes the place.

Alcanena is integrated into the national long-distance bus network of Rede Expressos .

The next rail connection is in Entroncamento, about 20 km to the east, with its connection to the Linha do Norte , the country's most important rail connection.

Local transport

Local public transport in the district is operated by private bus routes.

The district of Alcanena has a municipal road network of 360 km.

Alfredo Roque Gameiro,
self-portrait (around 1910)

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  2. ↑ a b Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
  3. ↑ a b www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  4. ↑ a b Profile of the district of Alcanena on the website of the city administration ( memento of January 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 8, 2014
  5. ^ History of the district on the website of the city administration ( memento from January 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 14, 2014
  6. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
  7. ↑ www.anmp.pt , accessed on May 14, 2014