Mortágua

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Mortágua
coat of arms map
Mortágua coat of arms
Mortágua (Portugal)
Mortágua
Basic data
Region : Centro
Sub-region : Region of Coimbra
District : Viseu
Concelho : Mortágua
Coordinates : 40 ° 24 ′  N , 8 ° 14 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 24 ′  N , 8 ° 14 ′  W
Residents: 2803 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 25.93 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 108 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 3450 - 121
politics
Mayor : Vitor Manuel Rosa Pina
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Mortágua
Alameda da Igreja
3450 - 121 Mortágua
Mortágua district
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Flag of Mortágua Location of the Mortágua district
Residents: 9607 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 251.19 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 38 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities : 7th
administration
Administration address: Câmara Municipal de Mortágua
Rua João Lopes de Morais
3450-153 Mortágua
President of the Câmara Municipal: José Júlio Norte ( PSD )
Website: www.cm-mortagua.pt
View over Mortágua at dusk

Mortágua is a vila (small town) and a district ( concelho ) in Portugal with 2803 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).

history

The presence of the Romans is proven by finds in some localities of today's district. After the area was conquered by the Moors during the Reconquista , it was given to the Lorvão Monastery in 985 . The place was then called Mortalago , based on the name given by the Romans after the drainage of an approximately 30 square meter lake by cutting off a tributary on a rock in the south of today's place in the first century (in today's Portuguese derived from: Morte = death, and Lagoa = Lake). After being taken again by the Arabs , Mortalago, from which the current name developed, was finally recaptured between 1058 and 1064 by Ferdinand I (León) .

Mortágua received its first town charter ( Foral ) after the independence of the Kingdom of Portugal in 1192 , which were renewed in 1403 and finally in 1514 .

In the course of the Napoleonic Wars on the Iberian Peninsula , French troops moved several times through the Mortágua district, where they camped before the Battle of Buçaco on September 27, 1810 .

From 1854 the municipality of Mortágua had fallow land and areas unsuitable for agriculture afforested, especially with Iberian pine species . As a result, up to two thirds of the area of ​​the district became forest areas. The reservoir Barragem da Aguieira , on the Rio Dão , which was completed in 1979 and opened in 1981, was also of importance for the district .

administration

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Mortágua is the seat of a district of the same name ( concelho ) in the district of Viseu . On June 30, 2011 the district had 9607 inhabitants on an area of ​​251.2 km².

The neighboring regions are (starting clockwise in the north): Águeda , Tondela , Santa Comba Dão , Penacova , Mealhada and Anadia .

With the territorial reform in September 2013, the municipalities ( freguesias ) Mortágua, Vale de Remígio , Cortegaça and Almaça were combined to form the new municipality União das Freguesias de Mortágua, Vale de Remígio, Cortegaça e Almaça . Since then, the district has consisted of the following seven municipalities:

Mortágua district
local community Population
(2011) 		Area
km² 		Density of
population / km² 		LAU
code
Cercosa 303 8.72 35 180802
Espinho 1.105 41.34 27 180804
Marmeleira 503 18.51 27 180805
Mortágua, Vale de Remígio, Cortegaça e Almaça 3,992 52.10 77 180811
Pala 1,016 48.86 21st 180807
Sobral 2,311 64.15 36 180808
Trezói 377 17.51 22nd 180809
Mortágua district 9,607 251.19 38 1808

Population development

Population in Mortágua County (1801–2011)
1801 1849 1900 1930 1960 1981 1991 2001 2011
5,864 7,520 8,834 10,268 13,024 11,291 10,662 10,379 9,864

Municipal holiday

  • Ascension of Christ
Mortágua train station around 1900

Town twinning

traffic

Mortágua is on the Linha da Beira Alta railway line .

The through road IP3 and the national roads (EN, also N) 234, 334-1 and 228 lead through Mortágua, which will also receive a motorway connection with the planned continuation of the A35 .

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Mortágua  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ↑ a b www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  4. ^ João Fonseca: Dicionário do Nome das Terras. 2nd edition, Casa das Letras, Cruz Quebrada 2007, page 172 ( ISBN 978-972-46-1730-5 )
  5. ↑ www.cm-mortagua.pt , accessed January 7, 2013
  6. ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed January 7, 2013
  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 on January 7, 2013