Forte da Casa
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| Basic data | ||||||
| Region : | Lisboa | |||||
| Sub-region : | Lisbon metropolitan area | |||||
| District : | Lisbon | |||||
| Concelho : | Vila Franca de Xira | |||||
| Coordinates : | 38 ° 52 ′ N , 9 ° 3 ′ W | |||||
| Residents: | 11,050 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
| Surface: | 4.53 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
| Population density : | 2439 inhabitants per km² | |||||
| Postal code : | 2625-391 | |||||
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| Address of the municipal administration: | Junta de Freguesia de Forte da Casa Rua Padre Américo 2-A 2625-391 Forte da Casa |
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Forte da Casa is a locality and former municipality in Portugal . Its fortifications from the early 19th century, to which a museum is dedicated, are known.
history
As commander in chief of the Portuguese-British defense against the Napoleonic invasions , the British general Arthur Wellesley , who later became the Duke of Wellington, had a line of 152 fortresses built in 1810, the lines of Torres Vedras . In the area of the later municipality of Forte da Casa were some of these fortresses, which belonged to the second fortress ring of the lines of Torres Vedras. A larger fortress as garrison was doing with the Reduit da Serra da Albueira Reduto built. The responsible major Brandão de Sousa gave the garrison fortress the name Forte Da Caza (German for house fortress ). The present-day place developed from this fort.
The village belonged to the municipality of Vialonga until it became an independent municipality in the district of Vila Franca de Xira on July 12, 1985. On June 30, 1989 Forte da Casa was elevated to a small town ( Vila ).
administration
Forte da Casa was a parish ( freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Vila Franca de Xira , in the district of Lisbon . On June 30, 2011 the community had 11,050 inhabitants on an area of 4.5 km².
In the course of the administrative reorganization in Portugal in 2013, the municipality of Forte da Casa was merged with the municipality of Póvoa de Santa Iria to form the new municipality of União de Freguesias de Póvoa de Santa Iria e Forte da Casa . The headquarters of the new municipality became Póvoa de Santa Iria.
Sons and daughters of the church
- Rafael Ferreira Silva (* 1993), football player, better known as Rafa
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
- ↑ Page on the fortresses of the municipality of Forte da Casa ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2014 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. from the district administration website, accessed June 19, 2014
- ↑ Entry of the Reduto da Serra da Albueira on the SIPA list of monuments of the architectural heritage authority , accessed on June 19, 2014
- ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on June 19, 2014
