Maçussa
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| Region : | Alentejo | |||||
| Sub-region : | Lezíria do Tejo | |||||
| District : | Lisbon | |||||
| Concelho : | Azambuja | |||||
| Freguesia : | Manique do Intendente, Vila Nova de São Pedro e Maçussa | |||||
| Coordinates : | 39 ° 12 ′ N , 8 ° 52 ′ W | |||||
| Postal code : | 2065 | |||||
Maçussa is a place and a former municipality north of the Portuguese capital Lisbon .
history
The place was created around 1500, when three shepherd families settled here on an elevation. Later a windmill was built here and around 1600 several families were already living here.
Maçussa became an independent municipality on October 4, 1985 when it was separated from the municipality of Manique do Intendente .
As part of the regional reform in Portugal in 2013, the municipality of Muçussa was dissolved again and merged with two others to form a new municipality.
administration
Maçussa was the seat of a municipality of the same name ( Freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Azambuja , in the Lisbon district . 388 inhabitants lived in the municipality on an area of 7.75 km² (as of June 30, 2011).
The community consisted only of the place of the same name.
With the regional reform of September 29, 2013 , the municipalities of Maçussa, Manique do Intendente and Vila Nova de São Pedro were merged to form the new municipality of União das Freguesias de Manique do Intendente, Vila Nova de São Pedro e Maçussa .
Web links
- Website about Maçussa on the website of the new general parish
- Entry on Maçussa in the Mapas de Portugal
Individual evidence
- ↑ website on the history Maçussas on the site of the new total community, accessed on June 24, 2018
- ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on October 1, 2014