Cinfães

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Cinfães
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Coat of arms of Cinfães
Cinfães (Portugal)
Cinfães
Basic data
Region : Norte
Sub-region : Tâmega e Sousa
District : Viseu
Concelho : Cinfães
Coordinates : 41 ° 4 ′  N , 8 ° 5 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 4 ′  N , 8 ° 5 ′  W
Residents: 3395 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 25.42 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 134 inhabitants per km²
Cinfães district
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Flag of Cinfães Location of the Cinfães district
Residents: 20,427 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 239.27 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 85 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities : 14th
administration
Administration address: Câmara Municipal de Cinfães
Paços do Concelho
4690-030 Cinfães
President of the Câmara Municipal: Prof. José Manuel Pereira Pinto ( PS )
Website: www.cm-cinfaes.pt

Cinfães is a small town ( Vila ) and a district ( Concelho ) in Portugal with 3395 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).

history

The ruins of the Bronze Age Castro das Coroas

Megalithic systems and other finds prove a prehistoric settlement of the area. People of the Castro culture and nomads from North Africa, especially Berbers , settled here before the 9th century BC. Celtic Lusitanians arrived here and built fortified Iron Age villages.

From the 2nd century BC The Romans ruling here Romanized the fortified settlements and built bridges and Roman roads . After the Alans , Suebi and Vandals took over the area from the Romans in 409, the Visigoths conquered the present-day district from 456 . Little striking finds have remained from this era. From 711 the Moors conquered the peninsula. In addition to the excavations of oil mills, various place names have remained in the district from this period, such as Boassas or Saímes.

The place experienced its most important period during the Reconquista , as evidenced by a number of sacred buildings , such as the monastery and church of Tarouquela . The first Portuguese king, D. Afonso Henriques, probably spent part of his youth in Santiago de Piães , where he received training from Egas Moniz .

King Manuel I granted Cinfães city ​​rights in 1513 .

administration

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Cinfães is the seat of a district of the same name. The neighboring districts are (starting clockwise in the north): Marco de Canaveses , Baião , Resende , Castro Daire , Arouca and Castelo de Paiva .

With the territorial reform in September 2013, the municipalities ( Freguesias ) Alhões , Bustelo , Gralheira and Ramires were merged to form the new municipality União das Freguesias de Alhões, Bustelo, Gralheira e Ramires . Since then, the district has consisted of the following 14 municipalities:

Cinfães district
local community Population
(2011) 		Area
km² 		Density of
population / km² 		LAU
code
Alhões, Bustelo, Gralheira e Ramires 595 37.52 16 180418
Cinfães 3,395 25.42 134 180403
Espadanedo 1,318 5.30 248 180404
Ferreiros de Tendais 695 16.00 43 180405
Fornelos 703 10.08 70 180406
Moimenta 408 6.54 62 180408
Nespereira 1,977 35.99 55 180409
Oliveira do Douro 1,529 14.13 108 180410
Santiago de Piães 1,797 17.59 102 180412
São Cristóvão de Nogueira 1,930 18.15 106 180413
Souselo 3,202 9.17 349 180414
Tarouquela 1,242 6.64 187 180415
Tendais 807 31.77 25th 180416
Travanca 829 4.97 167 180417
Cinfães district 20,427 239.27 85 1804

Population development

Population in the county of Cinfães (1801–2011)
1801 1849 1900 1930 1960 1981 1991 2001 2011
2,687 7.125 25,631 30,080 29,757 25,619 23,489 22,424 20,427

Municipal holiday

  • June 24th

Town twinning

Alexandre Serpa Pinto

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Cinfães  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ↑ a b Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
  3. ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  4. ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed on August 20, 2013
  5. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
  6. ↑ www.anmp.pt , accessed on July 9, 2013