Cardanha

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Cardanha
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Cardanha (Portugal)
Cardanha
Basic data
Region : Norte
Sub-region : Douro
District : Bragança
Concelho : Torre de Moncorvo
Freguesia : União das Freguesias de Adeganha e Cardanha
Coordinates : 41 ° 15 ′  N , 7 ° 2 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 15 ′  N , 7 ° 2 ′  W
Postal code : 5160-041

Cardanha is a place and a former municipality in northeastern Portugal .

history

Population development in Cardanha municipality (1864–2011)

Finds suggest that there was a settlement before the arrival of the Romans in the 2nd century BC. Suspect. The current location may have been rebuilt during the Reconquista . With the renewal of the town charter of Alfândega da Fé in 1515, Cardanha came to the district of Alfândega da Fé. Cardanha has been a municipality in the Torre de Moncorvo district since 1853.

administration

Cardanha was the seat of a municipality of the same name ( Freguesia ) in the district ( Concelho ) of Torre de Moncorvo in the Bragança district . The community had 247 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).

With the territorial reform of September 29, 2013 , the municipalities of Cardanha and Adeganha were merged to form the new municipality of União das Freguesias de Adeganha e Cardanha . Adeganha became the seat of the new community.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. page to place Cardanha at the county government Torre de Moncorvo, accessed on September 3, 2018
  2. www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  3. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on October 1, 2014