Borba

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Borba (disambiguation) .

Borba
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Basic data
Region :	Alentejo
Sub-region :	Alentejo Central
District :	Évora
Concelho :	Borba
Coordinates :	38 ° 48 ′  N , 7 ° 27 ′  W Coordinates: 38 ° 48 ′  N , 7 ° 27 ′  W
Residents:	7333 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	145.18 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	51 inhabitants per km²
Borba district
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Residents:	7333 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	145.18 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	51 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities :	4th
administration
Administration address:	Câmara Municipal de Borba Praça da República 7150-249 Borba
President of the Câmara Municipal:	Dr. Ângelo João Guarda Verdades de Sá ( PS )
Website:	www.cm-borba.pt

Borba is a city ( Cidade ) in the Alentejo in Portugal . Borba is a wine town and is located on the Alentejo Wine Route. Excellent wines are produced here, which have been exported abroad for years.

The listed fountain complex Chafariz de Borba (also Fonte da Bica )

history

The origin of the place is probably in a first Celtiberian settlement. After it became a place of the Roman province of Lusitania and then belonged to the Visigoth Empire , Borba came under the rule of the Moors in the course of the Arab conquest in 711 .

During the Reconquista , the Portuguese King D.Afonso II conquered the place in 1217 . King D Dinis created the independent district of Borba in 1302 and gave it its first town charter , which King D Manuel I renewed on June 1, 1512 .

After Borba, which is close to the border, was the scene of several battles to secure the independence of the Kingdom of Portugal during the revolution from 1383 , the place was involved in acts of war several times in the course of further history. In the summer of 1662, during the War of Restoration , the Habsburg-Spanish general Juan de Austria captured Borba and hanged a number of soldiers and officers here, including the garrison commander Rodrigo da Cunha Ferreira. In addition, he had the town hall and the city registers set on fire, so that today all historical manuscripts of the city's history are lost. In 1665 , Borba was again the scene of destruction, with the battle called Batalha de Montes Claros on June 17th near Montes Claros, municipality of Rio de Moinhos . A memorial stone reminds of the date today. In 1711 , Borba experienced a new occupation when the Spanish general Domingos de Ceo took the place and imposed high war taxes on it. The place was also destroyed during the Napoleonic invasions , in connection with the defensive battles of Évora on June 29, 1808 . From 1808 to 1811 , a Scottish brigade of the British-Portuguese Defense Army under General Beresford was stationed in Borba .

With the arrival of the railway in 1905 and the increased importance of marble quarrying in the 20th century, the place experienced a relative boom. Borba was promoted to city ( Cidade ) on June 12, 2009 .

On the afternoon of November 19, 2018, a landslide occurred in the area of ​​the marble quarries on National Road 255. The road slipped completely over a length of 200 meters and tore down a construction machine and two cars. Several people were killed.

Buildings

The main church ( Igreja Matriz ) of Borba

The castle ( Castelo , only partially preserved) and the city wall were built under King Afonso II from 1211 to 1223. Other historical buildings in Borba are

• Church of Nossa Senhora das Neves (15th century)
• Servas de Deus Abbey Church (17th and 18th centuries)
• Stone cross and church of S. Bartolomeu (17th century)
• Church of Santo António (17th century)
• Town hall (17th century)
• Misericórdia Church (16th century)
• Fountain of the Bicas (18th century)
• Monastery of the Nossa Senhora da Consolação do Bosque (16th - 18th centuries)
• Farm - Quinta do General (16th-18th centuries).

administration

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Borba is the seat of a district of the same name ( concelho ). On June 30, 2011 the district had 7333 inhabitants on an area of ​​145.2 km².

The neighboring districts are (starting clockwise in the north): Monforte , Elvas , Vila Viçosa , Redondo and Estremoz .

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

Borba district

local community	Population (2011)	Area km²	Density of population / km²	LAU code
Matrix	3,779	41.32	91	070301
Orada	740	50.81	15th	070302
Rio de Moinhos	2,056	52.85	39	070303
São Bartolomeu	758	0.20	3,719	070304
Borba district	7,333	145.18	51	0703

Population development

Population in the Borba district (1801–2011)
1801	1849	1900	1930	1960	1981	1991	2001	2011
3 726	4 652	6 551	8 094	10 431	8 813	8 254	7 782	7 333

Municipal holiday

• Easter Monday

Town twinning

•  São Tomé and Príncipe : Mé-Zóchi (since 2008)
•  People's Republic of China : Taishan (since 2009)
•  Russia : Kalininez
•  Angola : Chibia , Huíla Province (in preparation)

traffic

Until 1990, Borba had a connection to the Linha de Évora and thus to the country's railway network via its station on the Ramal de Vila Viçosa section .

The city has its own junction (No. 8) on the A6 motorway (here also Europastraße 90 ). The N4 national road, which also runs here, connects Borba with Estremoz, 11 km north-west, and Elvas , around 40 km east .

Borba is integrated in the national bus network of Rede Expressos . Local and regional public transport is also ensured by private bus routes.

economy

The main engine of the local economy is the quarrying and processing of marble . The wines of Borba are internationally known, including the olive oil produced here . In addition, the traditional sausage products ( Enchidos de Borba ) and cheese specialties produced here are well known beyond the region .

sons and daughters of the town

• Henrique Nunes († 1524), Marran spy
• Bento Pereira (1605–1681), Jesuit theologian, lexicographer and Romanist
• Joaquim Azinhal Abelho (1911–1979), writer, translator and director
• Henrique Granadeiro (* 1943), economist, entrepreneur and manager, CEO (chairman of the board) of Portugal Telecom since June 2013
• Vítor Norte (born 1951), actor
• Luís Bilro Pereira (* 1971), former national beach soccer player , coach of the Sporting Lisbon beach soccer team , sports commentator

Web links

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

• Official website of the city administration (Portuguese, Spanish and English)

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. ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed October 4, 2013
4. ↑ Survey on the city  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Portuguese, accessed May 3, 2010  
5. ↑ www.anmp.pt , accessed October 5, 2013
6. ↑ Website of the city administration ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. to sign the partnership, accessed on October 5, 2013  
7. ↑ Overview of the existing town twinning of Borba at the umbrella organization of the Portuguese municipal administrations (ANMP), accessed on December 14, 2017
8. ↑ Website of the city administration ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. about the partnership initiation, accessed on October 5, 2013