Murça
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Basic data | ||||||
Region : | Norte | |||||
Sub-region : | Douro | |||||
District : | Vila Real | |||||
Concelho : | Murça | |||||
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 |
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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 |
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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
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:
local community | Population (2011) |
Area km² |
Density of population / km² |
LAU code |
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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) | |||||||||
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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
- ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
- ↑ a b Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
- ↑ a b www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
- ↑ www.monumentos.pt , accessed on October 1, 2013
- ↑ ditto
- ^ João Fonseca: Dicionário do Nome das Terras . 2nd edition, Casa das Letras, Cruz Quebrada 2007, p. 174f ( ISBN 978-9724617305 )
- ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed October 1, 2013
- ↑ www.monumentos.pt (under Cronologia ), accessed on October 1, 2013
- ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
- ^ Page on Franco-Portuguese friendship on the website of the municipality of La Couture, accessed on October 1, 2013
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Overview of Murça's municipal partnerships at the Association of Portuguese District Governments ANMP, accessed on December 21, 2017
Web links
- Map of the Freguesia Murça at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
- Official website of the city administration