Ansião

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Ansião
coat of arms map
Ansião coat of arms
Ansião (Portugal)
Ansião
Basic data
Region : Centro
Sub-region : Region of Leiria
District : Leiria
Concelho : Ansião
Coordinates : 39 ° 55 ′  N , 8 ° 26 ′  W Coordinates: 39 ° 55 ′  N , 8 ° 26 ′  W
Residents: 2757 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 19.59 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 141 inhabitants per km²
politics
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Ansião
Lg. Pelourinho
3240-146 Ansião
Website: www.jf-ansiao.pt
Ansião district
flag map
Flag of Ansião Position of the Ansião district
Residents: 13,092 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 176.09 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 74 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities : 6th
administration
Administration address: Câmara Municipal de Ansião
Praça do Município
3240-143 Ansião
President of the Câmara Municipal: Rui Alexandre Novo e Rocha ( PSD )
Website: www.cm-ansiao.pt

Ansião is a small town ( Vila ) in Portugal with 2757 inhabitants. ( As of June 30, 2011 ) Ansião is located between Lisbon and Porto .

history

History of the city

On September 29, 2013, the municipalities of Torre de Vale de Todos and Lagarteira were incorporated into the Vila Ansião.

History of the circle

Antas and other finds prove a prehistoric settlement at least since the Neolithic . Remains of fortified settlements have also been found from the Castro culture . The Romans who ruled here from the 2nd century also left a large number of traces, such as ceramics, coins and mosaics. The Roman road from Sellium (today Tomar ) to Conimbriga ran here. The Suebi conquered the area in the 5th century, which became part of the Visigoth Empire in the 6th century . From 711 the conquered Moors , the Iberian Peninsula and settled here.

Today's place was officially mentioned for the first time in 1175 , assumptions about 1142 first granted city rights could not be proven so far. In 1514 King D. Manuel I elevated the place to Vila (small town with administrative rights) and gave it its first documented city rights.

Ansião suffered severe damage during the Napoleonic invasions in the early 19th century.

Origin of name

The place was already noted as Ansiom in the first documented mention of 1175 . The name probably goes back to a Germanic proper name of a landowner and local ruler when the area was first conquered by the Suebi and then by the Visigoths.

A circulating legend, however, tells that the later canonized Queen Santa Isabel (1271–1336) gave alms to an old man in need (Ancião) on her journey through the country. The name of the city is derived from this.

administration

circle

Ansião is the seat of a district of the same name ( concelho ) in the Leiria district . On June 30, 2011 the district had 13,092 inhabitants on an area of ​​176.1 km².

The neighboring districts are (starting clockwise in the north): Penela , Figueiró dos Vinhos , Alvaiázere , Pombal and Soure .

As part of the regional reform in Portugal in 2013 , the municipalities of Torre de Vale de Todos and Lagarteira were incorporated into Ansião, which reduced the number of municipalities from eight to six.

The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) are in the Ansião district (the population as of June 30, 2011 in brackets):

Ansião district
local community Population
(2011) 		Area
km² 		Density of
population / km² 		LAU
code
Alvorge 1,227 39.05 31 100301
Ansião 3,643 38.25 95 100309
Avelar 2,169 8.50 255 100303
Chao de Couce 1,992 23.79 84 100304
Pousaflores 950 25.27 38 100306
Santiago da Guarda 3.111 41.23 75 100307
Ansião district 13.092 176.09 74 1003

Population development

Population in the Ansião district (1801–2011)
1801 1849 1900 1930 1960 1981 1991 2001 2011
1,502 4,940 13,562 15,543 17,268 15,446 14,029 13,719 13,128

Municipal holiday

Twin cities

On July 25, 2009, Mayor Fernando Ribeiro Marques received honorary citizenship of the district town of Erbach.

Pedro Tochas (2015)

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Ansião  - 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 Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on October 1, 2014
  5. ^ History page of the district ( memento of November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the city administration's website, accessed on September 28, 2013
  6. ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed on September 28, 2013
  7. ^ João Fonseca: Dicionário do Nome das Terras . 2nd edition, Casa das Letras, Cruz Quebrada 2007, p. 35f ( ISBN 978-9724617305 )
  8. ↑ Ansião celebra geminação com brasileira Cidade de São Vicente . Retrieved June 15, 2011 .
  9. ^ Page on the town twinning of the district on the website of the town administration ( memento from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 28, 2013
  10. ↑ Erbacher delegation visited partner city Ansião . region-odenwaldkreis.de. September 25, 2009. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 16, 2010.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.region-odenwaldkreis.de
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