Alpiarça

Alpiarça
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Basic data
Region :	Alentejo
Sub-region :	Lezíria do Tejo
District :	Santarém
Concelho :	Alpiarça
Coordinates :	39 ° 16 ′  N , 8 ° 35 ′  W Coordinates: 39 ° 16 ′  N , 8 ° 35 ′  W
Residents:	7702 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	95.36 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	81 inhabitants per km²
politics
Address of the municipal administration:	Junta de Freguesia de Alpiarça Rua Maria Luísa Falcão, nº 30 2090-128 Alpiarça
Website:	www.jf-alpiarca.pt
Alpiarça district
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Residents:	7702 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	95.36 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	81 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities :	1
administration
Administration address:	Câmara Municipal de Alpiarça R. José Relvas , 234 2090-106 Alpiarça
President of the Câmara Municipal:	Mário Fernando Atracado Pereira ( CDU )
Website:	www.cm-alpiarca.pt

Alpiarça district

Alpiarça is a small town ( Vila ) within the Ribatejo region in Portugal .

history

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  The mansion Casa dos Patudos

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  Casa dos Patudos museum

Due to its favorable location on the left bank of the Tagus , the area was populated early on. The earliest traces of human presence come from the Paleolithic and go back to the Roman era . From its time as a small settlement in the Roman province of Lusitania , Alpiarça u. a. Coin and pottery finds. The Roman road passing here connected Olisipo (today Lisbon ) and Emerita Augusta (today Mérida ), some Roman milestones have been preserved.

The current town was probably created during the settlement policy after the Christian Reconquista . The place was officially mentioned for the first time in 1295 under the name Alpearça , which also appears in the royal surveys under D. Dinis and in a lease from 1311. In later documents the cultivation of grain and the abundance of fish in the nearby river Alpiarça (also Vala Real) are mentioned in connection with the Reguengos de Alpiarça district, a windmill marked its border with the area of ​​Santarém, to whose jurisdiction Alpiarça belonged. Alpiarça was later incorporated into the Santarém district.

At the beginning of the 19th century floods destroyed the cultivation of grain and caused hardship among the local farmers. Queen D. Maria I then turned her attention to the region and increasingly encouraged local agriculture.

In the course of the administrative reforms after the Liberal Revolution in 1822 , Alpiarça was spun off from the Santarém district in 1836 and attached to Almeirim. In 1846, the place was subordinate to Manuel da Silva Passos and was involved in the uprising known as the revolt of Maria da Fonte ( Revolta da Maria da Fonte ). In the further course of the 19th century it became known as a place of numerous robberies and riots, and the inhabitants fell into disrepute for a time as "people of bad character" ("Alpiarça ... gente de má raça").

On February 17, 1906, Alpiarça was elevated to a small town ( Vila ). The place was known as pro-republican, and its population celebrated the proclamation of the Portuguese Republic on October 5, 1910. In 1914 Alpiarça became the seat of an independent district, which to this day only consists of its eponymous municipality.

administration

The circle

Alpiarça is the administrative seat of a district of the same name ( concelho ) in the Santarém district . On June 30, 2011 the district had 7702 inhabitants on an area of ​​95.4 km².

The neighboring areas are (starting clockwise in the north): Chamusca , Almeirim and Santarém .

The only municipality ( Freguesia ) in the district is Alpiarça.

Population development

Population development of Alpiarça (1920–2011)
year	1920	1930	1960	1981	1991	2001	2004	2011
Residents	8591	7550	7856	8120	7711	8024	8198	7709

Municipal holiday

• 2nd of April

Town twinning

Alpiarça is in partnership with

•  Wysokie Mazowieckie , Poland
•  Champigny-sur-Marne , France

Attractions

• The Casa dos Patudos was built from 1905 to 1909 by the architect Raul Lino for the Portuguese politician José Carlos de Mascarenhas Relvas. Today a museum is housed there.

Personalities

• José Carlos de Mascarenhas Relvas (1858–1929), politician, Prime Minister of Portugal from January 27 to March 30, 1919, died in Alpiarça.
• Abel Fontoura da Costa (1869-1940), military and politician, Republican naval minister and later agriculture minister, was born here.

Abel Fontoura da Costa

Web links

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

• Map of the Freguesia Alpiarça at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
• Official website of the city administration

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. ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed on January 21, 2014