Avelas de Cima

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Avelas de Cima
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Avelãs de Cima (Portugal)
Avelas de Cima
Basic data
Region : Centro
Sub-region : Aveiro Region
District : Aveiro
Concelho : Anadia
Coordinates : 40 ° 29 ′  N , 8 ° 25 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 29 ′  N , 8 ° 25 ′  W
Residents: 2185 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 40.58 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 54 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 3780-401
politics
Mayor : Manuel Baptista Veiga ( PPD / PSD )
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Avelãs de Cima
Rua das Escolas, nº 22
3780-401 Avelãs de Cima
Website: www.jf-avelasdecima.pt

Avelãs de Cima is a place and a municipality in the central region of Portugal .

history

In the course of the Reconquista , a number of localities in the region were repopulated. The oldest documented place in the municipality is Canelas, which was first mentioned in 952.

In the 12th century Avelãs de Cima was already a municipality that is still made up of villages around the three main towns of Avelãs de Cima, Boialvo and Canelas. Avelãs de Cima was also the seat of an independent circle.

The place received its first city rights under King D. Dinis (1279-1325). King D. Manuel renewed the town charter on January 10, 1514. Since then, the place has had the title of a vila (small town).

In the course of the administrative reforms after the Liberal Revolution in 1822 , the Avelãs de Cima district was dissolved in 1836. Since then it has been the largest parish in Anadia County.

administration

Population development in the municipality of Avelãs de Cima (1864–2011)

Avelãs de Cima is a municipality ( freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Anadia , in the district of Aveiro . 2185 inhabitants live in it on an area of ​​41 km² (as of June 30, 2011).

The following localities are in the municipality:

  • Avelas de Cima
  • Boialvo
  • Candieira
  • Canelas
  • Cerca
  • Corgo de Baixo
  • Corgo de Cima
  • Coutadas
  • Ferreirinhos
  • Figueira
  • Mata de Baixo
  • Mata de Cima
  • Pardieiro
  • Pereiro
  • Porto de Vide
  • Póvoa do Gago
  • Sao Pedro
  • Senhora das Neves do Pinheiro

Web links

Commons : Avelãs de Cima  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ^ History of the municipality of Avelãs de Cima on the municipality's website, accessed on February 27, 2016