Cortes (Leiria)
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Basic data | ||||||
Region : | Centro | |||||
Sub-region : | Region of Leiria | |||||
District : | Leiria | |||||
Concelho : | Leiria | |||||
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 |
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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).
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
- ↑ www.monumentos.pt (under Cronologia ), accessed on December 26, 2012
- ↑ ditto