Murça

This article describes the small town and the district in the Portuguese district of Vila Real, for the place of the same name in the Portuguese district of Guarda see Murça (Vila Nova de Foz Côa) .

Murça
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Basic data
Region :	Norte
Sub-region :	Douro
District :	Vila Real
Concelho :	Murça
Coordinates :	41 ° 24 ′  N , 7 ° 27 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 24 ′  N , 7 ° 27 ′  W
Residents:	2136 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	13.96 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	153 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	5090-139
politics
Mayor :	Luís Aurélio Martins
Address of the municipal administration:	Junta de Freguesia de Murça Alameda 8 de Maio 5090-139 Murça
Website:	www.jfmurca.pt
Murça county
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Residents:	5952 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	189.37 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	31 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities :	7th
administration
Administration address:	Câmara Municipal de Murça Praça 5 de Outubro 5090-112 Murça
President of the Câmara Municipal:	João Luís Teixeira Fernandes ( PS )
Website:	www.cm-murca.pt

Murça is a small town ( Vila ) and the seat of a district of the same name ( Concelho ) in northern Portugal . The place is known for its prehistoric stone figure of a wild boar, the Porca de Murça . The Caldas de Carlão thermal baths are located in the municipality of Candedo .

history

The Celtic figure of the Porca da Murça , symbol of the city

Celtiberians lived here. A stone representation of a wild boar, the Porca de Murça ( Portuguese for: The sow of Murça) was probably the object of worship by the indigenous people, and is now the town's symbol . From the 2nd century BC The Romans conquered the area. A well-preserved bridge and some parts of a Roman road have been preserved here.

In the course of the conquest of the land by the Arabs from 711 , today's place was probably founded by Ibn Musa , the governor of Al-Andalus . The place name goes back to him. During the Reconquista , Murça became Portuguese. King D.Sancho II gave the place its first city rights in 1224 .

In 1512 King Manuel I renewed Murça's town charter.

administration

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Murça is the seat of a district of the same name ( concelho ) in the Vila Real district . On June 30, 2011 the district had 5952 inhabitants on an area of ​​189.4 km².

The neighboring districts are (starting clockwise in the north): Valpaços , Mirandela , Carrazeda de Ansiães , Alijó and Vila Pouca de Aguiar .

With the regional reform in September 2013, several municipalities were merged into new municipalities, so that the number of municipalities decreased from nine to seven.

The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) are located in Murça County:

Murça county

local community	Population (2011)	Area km²	Density of population / km²	LAU code
Candedo	1.002	28.78	35	170701
Carva e Vilares	472	29.30	16	170710
Fiolhoso	452	16.20	28	170703
Jou	654	37.29	18th	170704
Murça	2.136	13.96	153	170705
Noura e Palheiros	907	41.72	22nd	170711
Valongo de Milhais	329	22.12	15th	170708
Murça county	5,952	189.37	31	1707

Population development

Population in Murça County (1801–2011)
1801	1849	1900	1930	1960	1981	1991	2001	2011
4531	4975	6857	7886	10,364	8518	7371	6752	5952

Municipal holiday

• 8th of May

Town twinning

•  France : La Couture in the Pas-de-Calais department
•  Angola : Cambulo in the Lunda Norte Province
•  Italy : Spello

sons and daughters of the town

• Gaspar Cardoso de Sequeira , mathematician of the 17th century
• Inácio do Nascimento de Morais Cardoso (1811–1883), Roman Catholic cardinal and eleventh Patriarch of Lisbon
• Soldado Milhões (actually Aníbal Augusto Milhais, 1895-1970), Portuguese war hero in the First World War
• António Borges Coelho (* 1928), theater scholar, historian and poet

literature

• Thomas G. Schattner (Ed.): Archaeological guide through Portugal (= cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 74). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-8053-2313-1 p. 82

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. ↑ www.monumentos.pt , accessed on October 1, 2013
5. ↑ ditto
6. ^ João Fonseca: Dicionário do Nome das Terras . 2nd edition, Casa das Letras, Cruz Quebrada 2007, p. 174f ( ISBN 978-9724617305 )
7. ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed October 1, 2013
8. ↑ www.monumentos.pt (under Cronologia ), accessed on October 1, 2013
9. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
10. ^ Page on Franco-Portuguese friendship on the website of the municipality of La Couture, accessed on October 1, 2013
11. ↑ Article from May 20, 2013 on the news page of the Vila Real district ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. (port.), accessed May 14, 2014 
12. ↑ Overview of Murça's municipal partnerships at the Association of Portuguese District Governments ANMP, accessed on December 21, 2017

Web links

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

• Map of the Freguesia Murça at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
• Official website of the city administration