Algarve (province)
Algarve (from the Arabic : al-Gharb, German: The West) was one of the eleven provinces of Portugal from 1936 to 1976 .
While the other ten former provinces only exist in colloquial language or in historically founded terms, the term Algarve in today's administrative division of Portugal describes both a statistical sub-region and the southernmost of the five regions of continental Portugal, which are only used for development and Serve planning.
Faro was the capital of the Algarve province. This included the area of today 's Faro district , so that the administrative reform of 1976 with the dissolution of the provinces essentially only meant a change of name for this province, in terms of its extent and its administrative headquarters. The Algarve is thus a special case of the eleven dissolved regions, as the other ten also disappeared as a territorial unit after the dissolution in 1976.
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- ↑ Entry in the Infopédia , the online encyclopedia of the Porto Editora , accessed on July 27, 2013
- ↑ www.memoriaportuguesa.pt ( Memento from April 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 27, 2013
