Odivelas

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Odivelas (disambiguation) .

Odivelas
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Basic data
Region :	Lisboa
Sub-region :	Lisbon metropolitan area
District :	Lisbon
Concelho :	Odivelas
Coordinates :	38 ° 47 ′  N , 9 ° 11 ′  W Coordinates: 38 ° 47 ′  N , 9 ° 11 ′  W
Residents:	59,546 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	5.04 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	11,815 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	2675
politics
Address of the municipal administration:	Junta de Freguesia de Odivelas Alameda do Poder Local, 4 2675 - 427 Odivelas
Odivelas district
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Residents:	145,142 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	26.55 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	5467 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities :	4th
administration
Administration address:	Câmara Municipal de Odivelas Rua Guilherme Gomes Fernandes Quinta da Memória 2675-367 Odivelas
President of the Câmara Municipal:	Susana Amador ( PS )
Website:	www.cm-odivelas.pt

Odivelas is a city ( Cidade ) and a district ( concelho ) in Portugal with 59,546 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011). Odivelas belongs to the metropolitan area of the capital Lisbon .

Cityscape

history

The community was probably founded by the crusader João Ramires after participating in the siege of Lisbon in 1147. In 1295 the construction of the Mosteiro de S.Dinis monastery began , which subsequently gave the place some importance, for example due to the presence of Queen Philippa of Lancaster . With the dissolution and expropriation of all religious orders after the Liberal Revolution in 1822, Odivelas' importance waned.

In Pontinha was the high command of the Movimento das Forças Armadas , the group of army officers who overthrew the authoritarian Estado Novo with the Carnation Revolution on April 25, 1974 and reintroduced democracy in Portugal. With the increasing growth of the greater Lisbon area, Odivelas also grew considerably.

After the place was raised to a small town ( Vila ) in 1964 , Odivelas received the status of a town ( Cidade ) in 1990 , and in 1998 became the seat of an independent district ( concelho ).

administration

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Odivelas is the administrative seat of a district of the same name. The neighboring districts are (starting clockwise in the north): Loures , Lisbon , Amadora and Sintra .

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

The following municipalities ( freguesias ) are in Odivelas County:

Odivelas district

local community	Population (2011)	Area km²	Density of population / km²	LAU code
Odivelas	59,546	5.04	11,825	111603
Pontinha e Famões	34,143	9.22	3,704	111608
Póvoa de Santo Adrião e Olival de Basto	18,872	2.63	7.176	111609
Ramada e Caneças	32,581	9.66	3,373	111610
Odivelas district	145.142	26.55	5,467	1116

Population development

Population of the municipality of Odivelas (from 1998 district)
1950	1970	2001	2011
6772	51,395	133,847	144,549

Town twinning

•  Cape Verde : Paul
•  São Tomé and Príncipe : Príncipe
•  Cape Verde : Ribeira Grande de Santiago

sons and daughters of the town

• Orlando Worm (1938–2010), dancer, lighting technician, choreographer, founder of the Companhia Portuguesa de Bailado Contemporâneo
• Jorge Leitão Ramos (* 1952), film historian and film critic
• Fernando Ferrão (born 1959), actor
• Isabel Wiseler-Santos Lima (* 1961), Luxembourg politician, member of the EU since 2019
• Paulo Santos (born 1972), football player
• Catarina Leite (* 1983), chess player
• Roderick Miranda (* 1991), football player
• Rúben Pinto (* 1992), football player

See also

• List of flags in Odivelas
• List of coats of arms in Odivelas

Web links

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

• Map of the Freguesia Odivelas at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
• Official website
• Website about Odivelas

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.monumentos.pt (under Cronologia ), accessed on February 5, 2012
5. ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed on February 5, 2013
6. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
7. ↑ www.anmp.pt , accessed on February 5, 2013