Brinches
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| Basic data | ||||||
| Region : | Alentejo | |||||
| Sub-region : | Baixo Alentejo | |||||
| District : | Be yes | |||||
| Concelho : | Serpa | |||||
| Coordinates : | 38 ° 2 ′ N , 7 ° 36 ′ W | |||||
| Residents: | 1039 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
| Surface: | 92.4 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
| Population density : | 11 inhabitants per km² | |||||
| politics | ||||||
| Mayor : | António Lúcio Franco Travessa ( PCP-PEV ) | |||||
| Address of the municipal administration: | Junta de Freguesia de Brinches Rua da Cruz, n.º 2 7830-122 Brinches |
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Brinches is a place and a municipality in the Portuguese region of Alentejo . Regional tradition traces the place name back to a type of net that was formerly used for fishing on the Guadiana , the Brinxes .
history
Old Serpa-Brinches station: until the line was closed in 1989, there was a connection to the rail network via the Ramal de Moura line
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Finds prove a settlement up to the Bronze Age .
At the time of Roman rule it belonged to the province of Lusitania .
From 711 the region belonged to the Arab rulership of al-Andalus until the Reconquista . After an initial conquest by King D. Afonso Henriques , the region was finally recaptured in the middle of the 13th century under King D. Sancho II .
Brinches has been an independent community since the 16th century at the latest.
The parish suffered some destruction during the Restoration War in the 17th century.
administration
Brinches is the seat of a municipality of the same name ( Freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Serpa in the Beja district . The community has an area of 92.4 km² and 1039 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011). This corresponds to a population density of 11.2 inh. / Km².
In the municipality there is only one place with the eponymous place.
Web links
- Map of the Freguesia Brinches at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
- Page on the municipality of Brinches of the Serpa district administration
- Official site of the municipality Brinches at Facebook
- Entry on Brinches in the Mapas de Portugal
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
- ↑ Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
- ^ João Fonseca: Dicionário do Nome das Terras. 2nd edition, Casa das Letras, Cruz Quebrada 2007 ( ISBN 978-972-4617305 ), page 58
- ↑ a b Entry on Brinches (under details ) at www.riosibericos.com, accessed on April 15, 2017
- ^ Entry of the parish church of Brinches (under Cronologia ) in the Portuguese list of monuments SIPA, accessed on April 15, 2017
