Benavente (Portugal)

Benavente
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Basic data
Region :	Alentejo
Sub-region :	Lezíria do Tejo
District :	Santarém
Concelho :	Benavente
Coordinates :	38 ° 59 ′  N , 8 ° 49 ′  W Coordinates: 38 ° 59 ′  N , 8 ° 49 ′  W
Residents:	9174 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	130.41 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	70 inhabitants per km²
Benavente district
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Residents:	29,019 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	521.38 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	56 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities :	4th
administration
Administration address:	Câmara Municipal de Benavente Praça do Município 2130-038 Benavente
President of the Câmara Municipal:	António José Ganhão ( CDU )
Website:	www.cm-benavente.pt

Benavente is a vila (small town) and a district of the same name ( concelho ) in Portugal .

The listed town hall of Benavente

history

The place was created in 1199 through settlement of the contested areas in the course of the Reconquista . Benavente received its first town charter ( Foral ) in 1200 , which was confirmed by King Sancho I in 1218 and renewed and expanded by King Manuel I in 1516 .

administration

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Benavente is the administrative seat of a district of the same name ( concelho ) in the Santarém district . The neighboring regions are (starting clockwise in the north): Salvaterra de Magos , Coruche , Montijo , Palmela , Alcochete , Vila Franca de Xira , Azambuja and the Tagus Delta .

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

Benavente district

local community	Population (2011)	Area km²	Density of population / km²	LAU code
Barrosa	725	7.17	101	140504
Benavente	9,174	130.41	70	140501
Samora Correia	17.123	321.39	53	140502
Santo Estêvão	1.997	62.41	32	140503
Benavente district	29,019	521.38	56	1405

Population development

Population in the Benavente district (1801–2011)
1801	1849	1900	1930	1960	1981	1991	2001	2007	2011
2,758	4 308	6 413	8 733	11 631	16 306	18 335	23 257	28 312	29 019

Municipal holiday

• Ascension of Christ

Town twinning

•  Cape Verde : Paul (since 1997)
•  São Tomé and Príncipe : Príncipe (since 2001)

Azedo Gneco (center) in a speech on May 1, 1907

sons and daughters of the town

• Azedo Gneco (1849–1911), Freemason and Republican politician
• José Luís de Moura Mendes (1861–1918), artillery officer, died in the First World War against German troops in northern Mozambique
• Manuel Lopes de Almeida (1900–1980), historian, university professor and politician
• Justino Mendes de Almeida (1924–2012), philologist, historian and university professor
• Maria João Bastos (* 1975), actress
• Núria Madruga (born 1980), actress
• Mário Jorge Malino Paulino (* 1986), football player
• Gonçalo Guedes (* 1996), football player

Web links

Commons : Benavente, Portugal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Map of the Freguesia Benavente (Portugal) at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
• Official website

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. ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
4. ↑ www.cm-benavente.pt , accessed November 30, 2012
5. ↑ www.anmp.pt , accessed November 30, 2012