Moreira (Nelas)
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| Basic data | ||||||
| Region : | Centro | |||||
| Sub-region : | Dão-Lafoes | |||||
| District : | Viseu | |||||
| Concelho : | Nelas | |||||
| Freguesia : | União das Freguesias de Santar e Moreira | |||||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 33 ′ N , 7 ° 55 ′ W | |||||
| Postal code : | 3520-227 | |||||
Moreira is a place and a former municipality ( freguesia ) in the Portuguese district of Nelas . With an area of 3.79 km² and 595 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011), this results in a population density of 157.4 inhabitants per km². The place consists of the areas Moreira de Cima (seat), Moreira de Baixo and Pisão.
On September 29, 2013, the municipalities of Moreira and Santar were merged as part of a reorganization of the Portuguese administrative apparatus to form the new municipality of União das Freguesias de Santar e Moreira .
history
From the document “illa eclesiam de Moreira” from 1100 and another document from 1103, the first mention of Moreira, as a village in the Zurara area, near Santar, emerges. In other documents from the year 1258 the place is mentioned as Moreira, Moraria as well as Moreyra de Jusaa (today: Moreira de Baixo) and Moreira de Sussa (today: Moreira de Cima).
At that time of 1258, Moreira belonged to Senhorim County, with later documents counting the Moreira de Baixo area to Aguieira County. The district is mentioned in 1514 as "Vila Nova das Amoreiras".
The name Moreira was the name of the mulberry trees (Morus) at that time. The name additions Jusaa and Susaa come from the old Portuguese adjectives "jusão" and "susão" (feminine: "jusã" e "susã"), which indicate the location. These are comparable with the name suffixes "Ober-" and "Unter-" known in German.
In the second half of the 18th century, the two brothers and later bishops of Beja Manuel Pires de Azevedo Loureiro and António Pires de Azevedo Loureiro were born in Moreira (de Baixo).
In 1986 Moreira became an independent municipality (Freguesia).
On September 29, 2013, the merger of the two neighboring communities Moreira and Santar came into force, through which the community "União de Freguesias de Santar e Moreira" emerged. This amalgamation was carried out as part of the reforms of the Portuguese administrative apparatus, which are an immediate response to the country's economic crisis.
location
Moreira is located in the “Dão -Lafões” sub-region of the “Centro” region in Nelas County, Viseu District. Moreira is geographically located in the Beirão plateau. To the south are the Serra da Estrela, Serra Açor and Serra da Lousã mountains, to the west Serra do Buçaco and Serra do Caramulo.
In the northeast, Moreira borders on Santar, in the southeast on Carvalhal Redondo and in the west on the Dão River. The village belongs to the Dão (also Dão DOC) wine-growing region, one of the oldest in Portugal. The Nelas district, to which Moreira belongs, is known as the heart of the Dão ("coração do Dão").
population
| Population development of Moreira | ||||||||||||||
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| 1864 | 1878 | 1890 | 1900 | 1911 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 |
| 908 | 707 | 595 | ||||||||||||
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| year | 0-14 years | 15–24 years | 25–64 years | > 65 years | 0-14 years | 15–24 years | 25–64 years | > 65 years | |
| 2001 | 71 | 105 | 343 | 188 | 10.0% | 14.9% | 48.5% | 26.6% | |
| 2011 | 51 | 50 | 281 | 213 | 8.6% | 8.4% | 47.2% | 35.8% | |
Average age according to the 2001 census: 0-14 years 16.0%; 15–24 years 14.3%; 25–64 years 53.4%; > 65 years 16.4%
Average age according to the 2011 census: 0-14 years 14.9%; 15–24 years 10.9%; 25–64 years 55.2%; > 65 years 19.0%
economy
- Agriculture, including viticulture
- tourism
Folk festivals
- Divinas Cinco Chagas (February 7th)
- St. Antonius (June 1st)
- Festas Do Rio (June or July)
- Nossa Senhora dos Remédios (last Sunday in August)
- Nossa Senhora de Fátima (October 13)
- St. New Years Eve (December 31st)
Culture
- Igreja Matriz
- Cruzeiro de Moreira de Cima
- ACRD de Moreira (cultural and sports association)
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
- ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on October 1, 2014
- ↑ Anexo I. Diário da República, 1st series, n.º 19, Suplemento, de 28/01/2013. Retrieved March 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Recenseamentos Gerais da População)