Duas Igrejas (Miranda do Douro)
| Duas Igrejas (Port.) Dues Eigreijas (Mirandés) |
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| Basic data | ||||||
| Region : | Norte | |||||
| Sub-region : | Terras de Trás-os-Montes | |||||
| District : | Bragança | |||||
| Concelho : | Miranda do Douro | |||||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 28 ′ N , 6 ° 21 ′ W | |||||
| Residents: | 599 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
| Surface: | 49.9 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
| Population density : | 12 inhabitants per km² | |||||
| Postal code : | 4580-377 | |||||
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| Mayor : | Antonio Manuel de Bessa Oliveira | |||||
| Address of the municipal administration: | Junta de Freguesia de Duas Igrejas (Portuguese) Dues Eigreijas (Mirandés) Rua Monte do Calvário, 47 4580 - 377 Duas Igrejas (Portuguese) Dues Eigreijas (Mirandés) |
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| Website: | www.duasigrejas.pt | |||||
Duas Igrejas (Mirandés: Dues Eigreijas ) is a municipality in the district of Miranda do Douro in north-eastern Portugal . It belongs to the area in which the only regional language of Portugal is spoken, the Mirandés .
history
Finds prove a prehistoric settlement, including the rock paintings in the Abrigo Rupestre da Solhapa caves .
In the Middle Ages the place was a military base. The municipality of Cércio, which later became part of the municipality of Duas Igrejas, was already listed in the royal surveys of 1258. During the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) the area was briefly occupied by a Franco-Spanish army. The parish hall of Duas Igrejas was the temporary headquarters of the Spanish general Nicolás de Carvajal y Lancaster , the Marqués de Sarriá .
administration
Duas Igrejas is the seat of a municipality of the same name ( freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Miranda do Douro in the Bragança district . It has 599 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).
The following localities are in the municipality:
- Cércio
- Duas Igrejas
- Quinta do Cordeiro
- Vale de Mira
traffic
Duas Igrejas was the terminus of the Linha do Sabor railway line . Since it was closed in 1988, the municipality has no longer had a railway connection.
Via the IC5, Duas Igrejas with the district town of Miranda do Douro located 9 km northeast and Mogadouro located 36 km southwest is away.
Sons and daughters of the place
- Rui Pereira (* 1956), socialist politician
literature
- Duas Igrejas . In: Isabel Silva (ed.): Dicionário Enciclopédico das Freguesias . 2nd Edition. tape 3 : Bragança, Guarda, Vila Real . Minha Terra, Matosinhos 1997, ISBN 972-96087-7-6 , pp. 95-96 (Portuguese).
Web links
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
- ↑ monumentos.pt , accessed on March 22, 2014.
- ↑ monumentos.pt
- ↑ Brief history of the community on the website of the district administration ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (under Duas Igrejas ), accessed March 22, 2014.
