Canha

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Canha
coat of arms map
Canha Coat of Arms
Canha (Portugal)
Canha
Basic data
Region : Lisboa
Sub-region : Lisbon metropolitan area
District : Setubal
Concelho : Montijo
Coordinates : 38 ° 46 ′  N , 8 ° 38 ′  W Coordinates: 38 ° 46 ′  N , 8 ° 38 ′  W
Residents: 1689 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 211.97 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 8 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 2985-021
politics
Mayor : Armando José Cardeira Piteira (independent, via PSD list)
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Canha
Rua João Tomaz Piteira
2985-021 Canha
Website: www.jf-canha.pt

Canha is a municipality ( freguesia ) in the Portuguese district of Montijo . It has 1689 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011). The name goes back to the numerous cane plants here, port. Canas . The river that passes here, the Ribeira de Canha , also has this name.

history

The traces of human settlement here lead back to the Paleolithic , through the Neolithic to the Castro culture . In addition to ceramics and parts of a mosaic, the remains of a villa have also been excavated from the subsequent Roman period . After the long and destructive campaigns during the Christian Reconquista, not much has been preserved from the time after the Arab conquest from 711 .

After the area fell to the young Kingdom of Portugal , Canha was probably given its first city rights in 1172 by Portugal's first king, D. Afonso Henriques . Under King D. Sancho I , the area to which Canha belonged came to Santiagoorden in 1186 . Canha became an outpost of the Alcácer do Sal Castle . The place received its first city rights in 1235 by the knight Paio Peres Correia , who was the commander of the area and in 1242 became Grand Master of the Order of Santiago. In 1516 King D. Manuel I renewed Canha's town charter, which was run as Villa Nova de Canya .

Canha remained the seat of an independent administrative district until the administrative reforms after the Liberal Revolution in 1822 and the subsequent Miguelistenkrieg . As a result, Canha County was dissolved in 1836, then briefly restored in 1838, and finally dissolved in the same year. Canha then became a municipality in the district of Aldeia Galega, today's Montijo. In 1957, Canhas areas were also separated to establish the municipality of Santo Isidro , and again in 1985 to establish the municipality of Pegões .

Track construction work at the former Canha stop

traffic

Canha is a stop on the Linha de Vendas Novas railway line . Since 2005, however, only freight trains have passed through here.

The A13 motorway passes Canha. The municipality is located between exits No. 2 ( Pegões ) and No. 3 (Santo Estêvao). The national road N10, 3 km away, crosses the A13 in an underpass at Canhas, to which it runs largely parallel.

Sons and daughters of the church

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  2. ↑ Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
  3. ↑ History of the municipality on the municipal administration website, accessed on June 18, 2014