Castro Verde

Castro Verde
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Basic data
Region :	Alentejo
Sub-region :	Baixo Alentejo
District :	Be yes
Concelho :	Castro Verde
Freguesia :	União das Freguesias de Castro Verde e Casével
Coordinates :	37 ° 42 ′  N , 8 ° 5 ′  W Coordinates: 37 ° 42 ′  N , 8 ° 5 ′  W
Castro Verde County
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Residents:	7276 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	569.44 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	13 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities :	4th
administration
Administration address:	Câmara Municipal de Castro Verde Praça do Municipio 7780-217 Castro Verde
President of the Câmara Municipal:	Francisco José Caldeira Duarte ( CDU )
Website:	www.cm-castroverde.pt

Castro Verde basilica

Castro Verde is a small town ( Vila ) and a district ( Concelho ) in Portugal with 4858 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).

history

The area around Castro Verde was founded in the 6th century BC. Populated by the Celts , who were already mining pyrite and copper in the area of ​​the Mina de Neves Corvo . The name of the place is passed down with Oppidum, to whose territory the Castros also belonged. Even during the Roman era, Castro Verde was located directly on the transport route for the metals and pyrite that was extracted in the mines in the area. Visigoths and later the Moors also lived in Castro Verde until the reconquest ( Reconquista ) by the Christians in the nearby battlefield of Ourique around 1143, the founding of Portugal was sealed by the Treaty of Zamora. The Royal Basilica of Castro Verde, completed under King Sebastian in 1573, was built in memory of this battle. The painted tiles ( azulejos ) still show scenes of the battle in memory. In the period from the 14th to the 16th century, the area around Castro Verde became Portugal's granary. This process was intensified by King D. Dinis.

Azulejos with paintings of the Battle of Ourique in the Basilica of Castro Verde

Castro Verde received town charter in 1510 .

administration

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Castro Verde is the administrative seat of a district of the same name. The neighboring regions are (starting clockwise in the north): Aljustrel , Beja , Mértola , Almodôvar and Ourique .

With the territorial reform in September 2013 , the municipalities ( freguesias ) Castro Verde (municipality) and Casével were combined to form the new municipality União das Freguesias de Castro Verde e Casével . Since then, the district has consisted of the following four municipalities:

Castro Verde County

local community	Population (2011)	Area km²	Density of population / km²	LAU code
Castro Verde e Casével	5,346	322.77	17th	020606
Entradas	649	76.23	9	020603
Santa Bárbara de Padrões	943	66.31	14th	020604
São Marcos da Ataboeira	338	104.13	3	020605
Castro Verde County	7,276	569.44	13	0206

Population development

Population in Castro Verde County (1801–2011)
1801	1849	1900	1930	1960	1981	1991	2001	2011
2027	5930	7712	11,032	11,637	7472	7762	7603	7276

Municipal holiday

• June 29th

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historic center of Castro Verde

sons and daughters of the town

• Alfredo Luís da Costa (1883–1908), publicist and sales representative, Freemason, implicated in the murder of King D. Carlos
• António Gonçalves Correia (1886–1967), anarchist journalist and writer
• Raquel Maria (1946–2006), actress
• Frederico Rosa (* 1957), soccer player, national player at the 1986 World Cup

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  Alfredo Luís da Costa

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  António Gonçalves Correia

Web links

Commons : Castro Verde  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Map of the Freguesia Castro Verde at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014