Oliveira (Mesão Frio)

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Oliveira
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Oliveira (Portugal)
Oliveira
Basic data
Region : Norte
Sub-region : Douro
District : Vila Real
Concelho : Mesão Frio
Coordinates : 41 ° 10 ′  N , 7 ° 50 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 10 ′  N , 7 ° 50 ′  W
Residents: 391 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 3.44 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 114 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 5040-215
politics
Mayor : José Ângelo Pinto Vieira ( PS )
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Oliveira
Lugar da Quelha
5040-215 Oliveira

Oliveira is a village and a municipality in northern Portugal .

history

Traces of human presence go back at least to the Bronze Age and point to the later occasional settlement of local caves by Lusitans , who maintained a fortified settlement in nearby Cidadelhe . From the time of the following Roman rule from 134 BC. BC remains of a Roman road remained.

The current location was first documented in 970. Portugal's first King D. Afonso Henriques gave Oliveira to the Tarouca Monastery in 1170 . In the royal registers of 1289 Oliveira was listed as a parish of the Penaguião district. In the course of administrative reforms after the Miguelistenkrieg in 1834 Oliveira came to the Mesão Frio district.

administration

Population development in the municipality of Oliveira

Oliveira is the seat of a municipality of the same name ( Freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Mesão Frio in the Vila Real district . 391 inhabitants live in it on an area of ​​3 km² (as of June 30, 2011).

The following places belong to the municipality:

  • Bamba
  • Boavista
  • Calçada
  • Caldas de Moledo
  • Eira
  • Entrevinhas
  • Fonte Colher
  • Fundo do Povo
  • Gamelão
  • Granjão
  • Oliveira
  • Paço
  • Picota
  • Pombal
  • Portela
  • Rabela
  • Rossio
  • Rua
  • Rua Nova
  • Santa Bárbara
  • Senhora da Piedade
  • Souto

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  2. ↑ Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
  3. ↑ Oliveira's profile and story at www.mesaofrio.com.pt, accessed December 9, 2018
  4. ↑ regis the parish church Igreja de Santa Maria (under Cronologia ), Portuguese monument list SIPA, accessed on December 9, 2018