Cortes (Leiria)

Cortes
Basic data
Region :	Centro
Sub-region :	Region of Leiria
District :	Leiria
Concelho :	Leiria
Coordinates :	39 ° 42 ′ N , 8 ° 46 ′ W Coordinates: 39 ° 42 ′ N , 8 ° 46 ′ W
Residents:	3066 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	16.74 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	183 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	2410-522
politics
Mayor :	Manuel Carreira Bernardes da Cruz ( PS )
Address of the municipal administration:	Junta de Freguesia de Cortes ; Rua Xavier Cordeiro, n.º19 ; 2410-522 Cortes
Website:	www.jfcortesleiria.no.sapo.pt

Cortes is a municipality ( freguesia ) in the Portuguese district ( concelho ) of Leiria . It has 3,066 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).

Location of the municipality in the Leiria district

In the village of Cortes

The parish church of Nossa Senhora da Gaiola

history

The first mention of the place comes from the year 1250, from an inventory of the Knights Templar in Tomar . Cortes has been a separate municipality since 1592.

Culture and sights

A number of mansions and sacred buildings are listed in the municipality, including the baroque parish church Igreja Paroquial de Cortes (also Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Gaiola ), built from 1550 .

Sons and daughters

Anacleto Cordeiro Gonçalves de Oliveira (* 1946), Bishop of Viana do Castelo
António Xavier Rodrigues Cordeiro (1819–1896), writer

Web links

Commons : Cortes (Leiria) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
↑ Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
↑ www.jfcortesleiria.no.sapo.pt ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 26, 2012 @1@ 2

↑ www.monumentos.pt (under Cronologia ), accessed on December 26, 2012

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[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_PT_100911-1] www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística

[Fläche-2] Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu

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[4] www.monumentos.pt (under Cronologia ), accessed on December 26, 2012

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