Camarate
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| Region : | Lisboa | ||||
| Sub-region : | Lisbon metropolitan area | ||||
| District : | Lisbon | ||||
| Concelho : | Loures | ||||
| Coordinates : | 38 ° 48 ′ N , 9 ° 8 ′ W | ||||
| Residents: | 19,946 (as of June 30, 2011) | ||||
| Surface: | 5.66 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | ||||
| Population density : | 3524 inhabitants per km² | ||||
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| Address of the municipal administration: | Junta de Freguesia de Camarate Largo Engenheiro Armando Bandeira Vaz nº 5 2680 Camarate |
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| Website: | www.jfcamarate.pt | ||||
Camarate is a small Portuguese town ( Vila ) and former municipality northeast of Portugal's capital Lisbon . The place is now part of the Lisbon metropolitan area , the area of the Lisbon airport is partly in the municipality.
In Portugal, the place is mainly associated with the plane crash of December 4, 1980, when the then Prime Minister Francisco Sá Carneiro , his Danish lover and the Minister of Defense and his wife died in an unexplained crash and the name Camarates became known nationwide.
history
In the Middle Ages the place was known as a resting place on the way to Lisbon. This also results in one of the three circulating theories about place names. An overnight chamber of the Portuguese kings, a Camarata Real , is said to have existed here. A second theory says that wine mainly made from the Camarate grape was grown here, which in the course of time gave the place its name. The third and by many considered the most plausible theory sees the origin in the name of the Moorish family Banu Qamaratti who lived here during the Arab rule.
Camarate belonged to the municipality of Sacavém . Today's parish church was built around 1380.
Nuno Álvares Pereira is said to have lived with his mother for some time after the Portuguese Revolution of 1383 on a local estate, which was part of the gifts he received after his merits during the war. The local coat of arms shows his cross, which is also immortalized in the coat of arms of his hometown Cernache do Bonjardim .
In 1511 the place became an independent municipality and received city rights from King D. Manuel .
In the 16th century, more and more noble families moved here from Lisbon and bought or founded estates, so-called quintas . They mainly operated viticulture. This tradition is also immortalized in the local coat of arms.
In the course of industrialization since the 19th century, but especially since the growth of the suburbs of Lisbon from the 1960s, the population of Camarate grew. Today the place is one of the suburbs of Lisbon itself.
On December 4, 1980, a plane with Prime Minister Francisco Sá Carneiro , his lover Snu Abecassis , Defense Minister Adelino Amaro da Costa and his wife crashed here. All inmates died. To this day, legends and theories are entwined around the unfortunate accident, which was the subject of numerous books and films and made the name of the village known in the country.
On July 12, 1997 Camarate was elevated to a small town ( Vila ).
The independent municipality of Camarate was dissolved with the regional reform in 2013 and merged with others to form the new municipality of Camarate, Unhos e Apelação .
administration
Camarate was the seat of a parish of the same name ( Freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Loures , in the Lisbon district . The municipality had an area of 5.7 km² and comprised a population of 19,946 people (as of June 30, 2011).
The community consisted only of the place of the same name, which was made up of a large number of residential areas ( bairros ) and (mostly formerly) rural residences ( quintas ), whose names, however, have no official meaning:
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In the course of the regional reform in September 2013 , the municipality of Camarate was dissolved and merged with Apelação and Unhos to form the new municipality of União das Freguesias de Camarate, Unhos e Apelação . Camarate became the seat of the municipality.
Web link
- Map of the Freguesia Camarate at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
- Entry Camarates 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, p. 65f ( ISBN 978-9724617305 )
- ↑ Entry of the parish church of Camarate (under Cronologia ) in the Portuguese list of monuments SIPA, accessed on August 1, 2019
- ↑ Publication of Camarate's small town survey in the Portuguese legal gazette Diário da República of July 12, 1997, accessed on August 1, 2019