Cidade

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With Cidade is in Portuguese speaking countries an urban settlement area of outstanding importance designated. In Portugal, it is awarded to municipalities above a certain size by parliamentary resolution, in Brazil, colloquially and officially, every city that is the seat of a municípios (district) is called a cidade.

Etymological derivation

The immediate translation of Cidade is city. In Portuguese, vila (for smaller cities) and generally urbe are also used for city . Cidade always means a larger city. Cidade is derived from the Latin tribe civitate (Latin civitas : city citizenship, city, state).

Portugal

In Portugal , the term Cidade has been historically very early used to designate cities, which were exempt from direct unable magnificent dependency, according to urban development in other European countries. Some cities attribute their recognition as cidade to the Romans (such as Braga or Évora ) or the Moors (such as Silves ). Most of the old Cidades refer to the confirmatory re-establishment of their city statute by Christian kings as part of the driving back of the Moors, especially during the Reconquista . Today, Cidade is a city ​​name in Portugal that is given to municipalities (freguesias) from a size of more than 8,000 residents who are entitled to vote and when certain minimum infrastructure requirements are met, without any change in local law with regard to their position or tasks.

Brazil

In Brazil , the term cidade is generally used for cities of medium and major importance; there is also a separate ministry with the name Ministério das Cidades , but no legal regulation for this designation. In general, every city that is the seat of a Municípios (district) is referred to as a Cidade. Also, the Federal Statistical Office of Brazil, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), recorded in his statements towns accordingly as Cidades, to the extent they have less than 1 million inhabitants, more hot there Metrópole and over 10 million inhabitants Mega Cidade .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michaelis: Moderno Dicionário da Língua Portugesa, page loaded February 27, 2010, under: cidade, [1]
  2. ↑ See the list pt: Lista de cidades em Portugal por data de criação (Portuguese)
  3. ↑ Law No. 11/82 of June 2, 1982, Regime de criação e extinção das autarquias locais e de designação e determinação da categoria das povoações - Law on the establishment and abolition of local bodies and the qualification and definition of settlement categories, page of the Portuguese Government, loaded on February 26, 2010 (pdf), http://www.povt.qren.pt/tempfiles/20080213151143moptc.pdf ( Memento from March 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese)
  4. ↑ Official website of the Ministério das Cidades, [2] (Portuguese)
  5. ↑ For an explanation see also the Portuguese language Wikipedia: Cidade em Brasil .