Baião (Portugal)

Baião
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Basic data
Region :	Norte
Sub-region :	Tâmega e Sousa
District :	postage
Concelho :	Baião
Coordinates :	41 ° 10 ′  N , 8 ° 2 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 10 ′  N , 8 ° 2 ′  W
Residents:	20,522 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	174.52 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	118 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	4640
Baião district
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Residents:	20,522 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	174.52 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	118 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities :	14th
administration
Administration address:	Câmara Municipal de Baião Praça Heróis do Ultramar 4640-158 Campelo - Baião
President of the Câmara Municipal:	José Luís Pereira Carneiro ( PS )
Website:	www.cm-baiao.pt

Baião is a small town ( vila ) in Portugal .

history

Anta in the Aboboreira Archaeological Park

Finds show a settlement since the Neolithic Age , including megalithic systems , vessels, axes and blades. They can be viewed today at the archaeological site of Campo Arqueológico da Serra da Aboboreira . In the 5th or 4th century BC Chr. Created Celtic settlements of the Castro culture . The gold treasure, which is part of the extensive jewelry collection Tesouro de Baião (German: Treasure of Baião) in the Lisbon archeology museum, Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, dates from this time . From the time after the subsequent Roman conquest, tombs, tablets, remains of a Jupiter temple, a milestone and other parts of a Roman road have been preserved.

In 711 the Moors conquered the area. The crusader Dom Arnaldo distinguished himself in the campaigns of the Reconquista against the Arabs , for which the king of Castile gave him the local area in 985 . Not much is known about D.Arnaldo, possibly he was of Franconian, but more of Basque descent, probably from Bayonne . He was the founder of the aristocratic family of Bayãos, from which the current place name is derived. The place name may also come from an originally Latin name for brown-yellow coloring, baio , which became the place name Baian before the arrival of the Arabs , and which in turn later determined the naming of the noble family. As Egas Moniz, D.Arnaldo's great-great-grandson became the tutor of the first Portuguese king, D.Afonso Henriques .

King D. Manuel I gave the place city ​​rights in 1513 .

administration

Baião district

Baião is the seat of a district of the same name ( concelho ) in the Porto district . On June 30, 2011 the district had 20,522 inhabitants on an area of ​​174.5 km².

The neighboring areas are (starting clockwise in the north): Amarante , Peso da Régua , Mesão Frio , Resende , Cinfães and Marco de Canaveses .

With the regional reform in September 2013, several municipalities were merged into new municipalities, so that the number of municipalities decreased from 20 to 14.

The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) are in the Baião district:

Baião district

local community	Population (2011)	Area km²	Density of population / km²	LAU code
Ancede e Ribadouro	2,836	15.54	183	130221
Baião e Mesquinhata	855	7.76	110	130222
Campelo e Ovil	3,938	31.81	124	130223
Frende	656	2.90	226	130204
Gestaçô	1,263	14.43	88	130205
Gove	1,974	11.17	177	130206
Grilo	590	5.94	99	130207
Loivos da Ribeira e Tresouras	853	7.17	119	130224
Loivos do Monte	373	8.75	43	130208
Santa Cruz do Douro e Sao Tome de Covelas	2,085	16.11	129	130225
Santa Marinha do Zezere	2,789	10.69	261	130215
Teixeira e Teixeiró	946	26.09	36	130226
Valadares	844	9.93	85	130219
Viariz	520	6.23	83	130220
Baião district	20,522	174.52	118	1302

Population development

Population in the Baião district (1801–2011)
1801	1849	1900	1930	1960	1981	1991	2001	2011
9,939	17,944	23,139	26,886	28,864	24,438	22,456	22,355	20,525

Municipal holiday

• August 24th

sons and daughters of the town

• Soeiro Pereira Gomes (1909–1949), neo-realistic writer and communist politician
• Luís Maria Teixeira Pinto (1927–2012), economist and politician, Minister of Economics in the Salazar dictatorship

Web links

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

• Official website of the city administration

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} 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. ^ João Fonseca: Dicionário do Nome das Terras. 2nd edition, Casa das Letras, Cruz Quebrada 2007, p. 47 ( ISBN 978-9724617305 )
4. ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed December 3, 2013
5. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014