Ourique

Ourique
Basic data
Region :	Alentejo
Sub-region :	Baixo Alentejo
District :	Be yes
Concelho :	Ourique
Coordinates :	37 ° 39 ′ N , 8 ° 14 ′ W Coordinates: 37 ° 39 ′ N , 8 ° 14 ′ W
Residents:	2874 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	249.7 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	12 inhabitants per km²
Ourique county
Residents:	5389 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	663.32 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	8.1 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities :	4th
administration
Administration address:	Câmara Municipal de Ourique ; Avenida 25 de Abril ; 7670-281 Ourique
President of the Câmara Municipal:	Pedro Nuno Raposo Prazeres do Carmo ( PS )
Website:	cm-ourique.pt

Ourique is a small town ( Vila ) and a district ( Concelho ) in Portugal with 2874 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).

history

The traces of human presence in today's district lead back to the Paleolithic . The founding date of today's place is usually given as 711 , when the Moors conquered the Iberian Peninsula and founded a settlement here. The Battle of Ourique probably took place here in 1139 . This victory of the later first king of Portugal, D.Afonso Henriques , over the Arabs was a decisive step towards the independence of the Kingdom of Portugal . However, it is not clear whether the battle was actually fought on this Ourique.

King D Dinis granted Ourique its first town charter ( Foral ) in 1290 , which King Manuel I renewed in 1510 .

Culture and sights

Monument of King Henrique in the Park of Ourique
Painting " Battle of Ourique " (1139) by Domingos Sequeira (1768–1837)
Church Igreja da Nossa Senhora da Cola

The numerous architectural monuments of the place include various public buildings, historic residential houses and sacred buildings , including the pilgrimage church Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Cola . The single-nave baroque church from the 17th century has an altarpiece and two church towers. The excavations of the Islamic castle Castelo de Cola (also Castro de Cola and Cidade Marrachique ) mounted on a Iron Age hill fort dating back is protected.

The male choir Grupo Coral de Ourique was founded in 1947 and has performed internationally (Belgium, France) with its repertoire of the typical Alentejo singing, the Cante Alentejano . After the creation of the Portuguese television network RTP , it became the first choir to appear on the country's television in 1957.

administration

Ourique county

Ourique is the administrative seat of a district of the same name. The neighboring districts are (starting clockwise in the north): Santiago do Cacém , Aljustrel , Castro Verde , Almodôvar , Silves and Odemira .

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

The following municipalities ( freguesias ) are in the Ourique county:

Ourique county

local community	Population (2011)	Area km²	Density of population / km²	LAU code
Garvão e Santa Luzia	1,083	79.15	14th	021207
Ourique	2,874	249.70	12	021203
Panoias e Conceição	582	143.53	4th	021208
Santana da Serra	850	190.94	4th	021206
Ourique county	5,389	663.32	8th	0212

Population development

Population in Ourique County (1801–2011)
1801	1849	1900	1930	1960	1981	1991	2001	2004	2011
6480	8205	9143	14,014	15.002	7969	6597	6199	5842	5389

Municipal holiday

September 8th

Web links

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

Map of the Freguesia Ourique at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
Official website

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
↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed on February 6, 2013
^ João Fonseca: Dicionário do Nome das Terras. 2nd edition, Casa das Letras, Cruz Quebrada 2007, p. 187 ( ISBN 978-9724617305 )
↑ www.monumentos.pt (under Cronologia ), accessed on February 6, 2013
↑ www.monumentos.pt , accessed on February 6, 2013.
↑ ditto
↑ www.cm-ourique.pt , accessed February 6, 2013
^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_PT_021203-1] www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística

[Fläche-2] Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_PT_0212-3] www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística

[4] www.verportugal.net , accessed on February 6, 2013

[5] João Fonseca: Dicionário do Nome das Terras. 2nd edition, Casa das Letras, Cruz Quebrada 2007, p. 187 ( ISBN 978-9724617305 )

[6] www.monumentos.pt (under Cronologia ), accessed on February 6, 2013

[7] www.monumentos.pt , accessed on February 6, 2013.

[8] tto

[9] www.cm-ourique.pt , accessed February 6, 2013

[10] Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014