Comarca

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Comarca ( Spanish , Catalan , Galician and Portuguese ) is a traditional name for a region or a regional or local administrative unit that is or has been used in parts of Spain , Portugal , Panama and Brazil . A comarca is comparable to the German district or the Austrian political district .

The word is an education to marca - this corresponds to the old German word Mark ( old high German marcha ) with the meaning "area at the border" or "demarcated area". The word formation comarca with the prefix co- is comparable to the German word formation Gemarkung for an area, in particular a municipality. In parts of southern France , the term comarque is used for some régions naturelles .

Spain

After the transition to democracy , the comarcas were established as local authorities in some of the Spanish Autonomous Communities . There they form a separate level of local self-government. In the rest of Spain, the comarcas are legally non-existent and only serve as a traditional area designation (which means that their delimitations are not always clear). They therefore do not serve as the LAU -1 level (groups of municipalities) in the international administrative breakdown key.

Comarcas exist as regional authorities in the following autonomous communities:

A similar function (administrative level above the municipality and below the provincial level) is performed by the island councils in the Balearic Islands and Canary Islands . The Balearic Islands are not divided into provinces, so there are no provincial governments. The Canary Islands are divided into two provinces, but there are no provincial governments. The subdivision is only used for statistical and election purposes:

Since March 28, 2003, Andalusia has been divided into 62 comarcas, which, however, only fulfill the function of planning regions for tourism and the development of sporting facilities.

See also:

Portugal

Until the administrative reforms after the Liberal Revolution in 1822 , the comarcas were the administrative units above the municipalities, the then Paróquias . In the course of the subsequent restructuring of the administrative division of Portugal , they became today's municipalities, the Freguesias , which were combined in Concelhos (districts).

Today the term comarca still exists in Portugal as a designation for the first instance judicial districts . The comarca is the lowest level of territorial court organization in the Portuguese legal system .

Brazil

In Brazil, the comarca designates a judicial district , the lowest level of territorial judicial organization in Brazil.

The state of Minas Gerais, for example, is divided into 296 comarcas.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (the) mark . Duden online. District . Duden online.
  2. ↑ Gemark . In: German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (Ed.): German legal dictionary . tape 4 , issue 1 (edited by Hans Blesken and others). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1939 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de ). Section III: District, Territory, Demarcation.
  3. ↑ Order de 14 de March 2003, por la que se aprueba el mapa de comarcas de Andalucía a efectos de la planificación de la oferta turística y deportiva . In: Boletín Oficial de la Junta de Andalucía (Official Gazette of the Government of Andalusia), No. 59 of March 27, 2003, p. 6248
  4. ↑ Comarca . In: Infopédia , online encyclopedia of the Porto Editora , accessed on 23 August 2015
  5. ↑ List of judicial districts in Minas Gerais on the website of the Supreme Court of the State of Minas Gerais, accessed August 23, 2015