Folques
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| Region : | Centro | |||||
| Sub-region : | Region of Coimbra | |||||
| District : | Coimbra | |||||
| Concelho : | Arganil | |||||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 13 ′ N , 8 ° 1 ′ W | |||||
| Residents: | 356 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
| Surface: | 18.36 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
| Population density : | 19 inhabitants per km² | |||||
| Postal code : | 3300-270 | |||||
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| Mayor : | Paulo Jorge Travassos Baptista | |||||
| Address of the municipal administration: | Junta de Freguesia de Folques Rua José Simões Gouveia 3300–270 Folques |
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Folques is a place and a municipality in Portugal .
history
The Bishop of Coimbra allowed the monastery of Arganil, founded in 1086, to move to Folques in 1190, which subsequently developed into a locality and received its first simple city rights in 1225, which were expanded in 1237. The Augustinian monastery remained of regional importance.
In 1595 Pope Clement III. the connection of the monastery to the monastery of Santa Cruz in Coimbra . The monastery and with it the town of Folques continued to lose importance until the monastery was dissolved with the dissolution of all religious orders after the liberal Miguelistenkrieg in 1834. Folques then remained an independent municipality in the Arganil district.
administration
Folques is the seat of a municipality of the same name ( Freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Arganil in the Coimbra district . 356 inhabitants live in it on an area of 18 km² (as of June 30, 2011).
The following localities are in the municipality:
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literature
- Folques . In: Isabel Silva (ed.): Dicionário Enciclopédico das Freguesias . 2nd Edition. tape 2 : Aveiro, Coimbra, Leiria, Santarém e Viseu . Minha Terra, Matosinhos 1997, ISBN 972-96087-5-X , pp. 147 (Portuguese).
Web links
- Folques website at the Arganil County Council
- Entry to Folques in the Mapas de Portugal
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
- ↑ Entry of the São Pedro monastery in Folques in the Portuguese SIPA list of monuments, accessed on December 23, 2018
