Bissorã
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| Coordinates | 12 ° 2 ′ N , 15 ° 26 ′ W | ||
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| Country | Guinea-Bissau | ||
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| region | Oio | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | GW-OI | ||
| surface | 1,122.9 km² | ||
| Residents | 56,585 (2009) | ||
| density | 50.4 Ew. / km² | ||
 Location of the Bissorã (lighter pink) sector in the Oio administrative region
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Bissorã is a city in northern Guinea-Bissau with 9520 inhabitants (as of 2009).
It is the seat of the sector of the same name with an area of 1123 km² and 56,585 inhabitants (as of 2009), mainly Balanta with minorities of Fulbe and Mandinka , etc. a.
history
In 1910 the Portuguese set up a military post in Bissorã, which was then subjected to repeated attacks.
In 1968 the place received its coat of arms with the insignia of a small town ( Vila ).
In the Portuguese colonial war , which lasted in Guinea-Bissau from 1963 to 1974 and was waged there particularly intensively, the Portuguese army was stationed in Bissorã (including the Companhia de Caçadores nº 13 ).
After the Carnation Revolution in Portugal in 1974 and the subsequent hasty withdrawal of the Portuguese armed forces , many members of African associations, such as the Grupos Especiais , were unable to escape to Portugal or the neighboring countries of Guinea-Bissau. Around 500 of them were executed in violation of international law by the victorious PAIGC on the orders of President Luís Cabral . The best-known massacre happened in Bissorã, in which an unknown number of those shot were buried in anonymous mass graves in the area.
In May 2017, the government began installing a local solar-powered electricity grid in Bissorã that will enable street lighting in the city in ten months.
Sports
The Atlético Clube de Bissorã is the city's most famous football club. In 2011 he won the Guinea-Bissau Championship . The AC Bissorã plays its home games in the Estádio Municipal de Bissorã .
Founded in 1946 as a subsidiary of the Portuguese Atlético Clube de Portugal , the club became the first female-run football club in Guinea-Bissau with the election of journalist Maria da Conceição Évora in 2012.
traffic
Bissorã has an airfield with the ICAO code GGBI.
Town twinning
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Inhabitants by region, sector and town by gender, 2009 census (p. 23), PDF access from the National Statistics Office INE of December 17, 2017
- ↑ Annual Statistical Report Guinea-Bissau 2015 (p. 10), PDF available from the National Statistics Office INE on December 17, 2017
- ↑ Entry from 2012 on Guinea-Bissau at www.genocidewatch.net (English), accessed on December 17, 2017
- ↑ “Bissorâ vai ter iluminação pública dentro de 10 meses”, diz ministro de Energia e Industria (“Bissorã will get street lighting within 10 months, says Energy and Industry Minister”), message from the Guinea-Bissau news agency ANG, accessed on December 17 2017
- ^ Website of the Atlético Clube de Bissorã branch association on the website of the Portuguese club Atlético CP, accessed on December 17, 2017
- ↑ Entry by Atlético Clube de Bissorã on www.zerozero.pt, accessed on December 17, 2017
- ↑ Overview of town twinning with municipalities in Guinea-Bissau , Association of Portuguese District Administrations (ANMP), accessed on December 17, 2017