Miranda do Corvo

Miranda do Corvo
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Basic data
Region :	Centro
Sub-region :	Region of Coimbra
District :	Coimbra
Concelho :	Miranda do Corvo
Coordinates :	40 ° 6 ′  N , 8 ° 20 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 6 ′  N , 8 ° 20 ′  W
Residents:	7614 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	46.52 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	164 inhabitants per km²
politics
Mayor :	Maria de Fátima Simões Ramos do Vale Ferreira
Miranda do Corvo County
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Residents:	13,098 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	126.38 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	104 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities :	4th
administration
Administration address:	Câmara Municipal de Miranda do Corvo Praça José Falcão 3220-206 Miranda do Corvo
Website:	www.cm-mirandadocorvo.pt

Miranda do Corvo is a vila and a district ( concelho ) in Portugal with 7614 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).

history

The place was officially mentioned for the first time as a fortification, which was conquered by the Arabs in 1116 and partially destroyed. D.Afonso Henriques granted the place, after its reconquest in the course of the Reconquista , city rights for the first time in 1136 and rebuilt the fortress. Since the reign of D.Afonso II. (1211-1223) Miranda is an independent circle (concelho). The circle was significantly enlarged through incorporations, especially in the course of the administrative reforms in the middle of the 19th century. Miranda received its current surname do Corvo (English: the raven), after changing earlier names, only in the 16th century.

In the course of the battles at the end of the Napoleonic Wars on the Iberian Peninsula , the place suffered extensive damage to people and buildings in 1811.

administration

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Miranda do Corvo is the administrative seat of a district of the same name. The neighboring districts are (starting clockwise in the north): Vila Nova de Poiares , Lousã , Figueiró dos Vinhos , Penela , Condeixa-a-Nova and Coimbra .

The following municipalities ( freguesias ) are in the Miranda do Corvo district:

With the regional reform in September 2013, the municipalities ( freguesias ) Semide and Rio Vide were merged to form the new municipality União das Freguesias de Semide e Rio Vide . Since then, the district has consisted of the following four municipalities:

Miranda do Corvo County

local community	Population (2011)	Area km²	Density of population / km²	LAU code
Llamas	838	15.66	54	060901
Miranda do Corvo	7,614	46.52	164	060902
Semide e Rio Vide	3,676	37.30	99	060906
Vila Nova	970	26.90	36	060905
Miranda do Corvo County	13,098	126.38	104	0609

Population development

Population in Miranda do Corvo County (1801–2011)
1801	1849	1900	1930	1960	1981	1991	2001	2011
6,412	5,891	12,751	12,608	12,810	12,231	11,674	13,069	13,098

Twin cities

• Neufchâteau in France
• Santa Catarina do Fogo (Island Fogo ) on the Cape Verde since 2008

Personalities

• José Falcão (1841–1893), mathematician and Republican politician
• António Arruda Ferrer Correia (1912–2003), lawyer and rector of the University of Coimbra
• Fausto de Sousa Correia (1952–2007), politician
• Fausto Jorge Dias Lourenço (* 1987), football player
• Tozé Marreco (* 1987), football player

Web links

Commons : Miranda do Corvo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Map of the Freguesia Miranda do Corvo at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
2. ↑ ^{a b} Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
3. ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
4. ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed December 28, 2012
5. ^ João Fonseca: Dicionário do Nome das Terras. 2nd edition, Casa das Letras, Cruz Quebrada 2007, page 166 ( ISBN 978-9724617305 )
6. ↑ www.cm-mirandadocorvo.pt ( Memento of the original dated November 5, 2013 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 28, 2012 
7. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
8. ↑ www.anmp.pt , accessed December 28, 2012