Penamacor

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Penamacor
coat of arms map
Penamacor coat of arms
Penamacor (Portugal)
Penamacor
Basic data
Region : Centro
Sub-region : Viseu Dão-Lafoes
District : Castelo Branco
Concelho : Penamacor
Coordinates : 40 ° 10 ′  N , 7 ° 10 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 10 ′  N , 7 ° 10 ′  W
Residents: 1577 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 373.5 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 4.2 inhabitants per km²
Penamacor County
flag map
Flag of Penamacor Location of the Penamacor district
Residents: 5682 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 563.72 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 10 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities : 9
administration
Administration address: Câmara Municipal de Penamacor
Largo do Município
6090-543 Penamacor
President of the Câmara Municipal: Domingos Manuel Bicho Torrão ( PS )
Website: www.cm-penamacor.pt

Penamacor (also Penamacôr ) is a small town ( Vila ) and a district in Portugal with 1577 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011). The place belongs to the Rede de Judiarias ( Portuguese for: Network of the Jewish Quarter), a network of places with historically significant Jewish communities.

The stake in the historic center
The Convento Santo António Convent

history

The Visigoth king Vamba comes from Penamacor according to unproven suspicions. The place received its first town charter ( Foral ) in 1189 by King Sancho I , who gave Penamacor to Gualdim Pais . The place grew with the beginning settlement policy and gained importance due to its strategic position in the defense line against Aragon and Castile . It was fortified with castles and elevated to Vila (small town with administrative rights) in 1199. In 1217 King D.Afonso II confirmed the town charter , which King Manuel I renewed in 1510.

administration

The circle

The coat of arms of the Penamacor county

Penamacor is the seat of a district of the same name ( concelho ) in the Castelo Branco district . On June 30, 2011, the district had 5682 inhabitants on an area of ​​563.7 km².

In the east, the district borders on Spain , the Portuguese neighboring districts are (starting clockwise in the north): Sabugal , Idanha-a-Nova , Castelo Branco and Fundão .

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

The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) are in the Penamacor district:

Penamacor County
local community Population
(2011) 		Area
km² 		Density of
population / km² 		LAU
code
Aldeia do Bispo, Águas e Aldeia de João Pires 1,171 32.71 36 050713
Aranhas 353 5.48 64 050704
Benquerença 575 28.60 20th 050706
Meimão 280 33.12 8th 050707
Meimoa 373 28.80 13 050708
Pedrógão de São Pedro e Bemposta 620 31.71 20th 050714
Penamacor 1,577 373.50 4th 050710
Salvador 476 10.49 45 050711
Vale da Senhora da Póvoa 257 19.31 13 050712
District Fundão 5,682 563.72 10 0507

Population development

Population in Penamacor County (1801–2011)
1801 1849 1900 1930 1960 1981 1991 2001 2011
5259 7498 13,179 15,724 16,659 9524 8115 6658 5652
The watchtower of the castle ( Castelo )

Municipal holiday

  • Easter Monday

Town twinning

sons and daughters of the town

  • António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches

Web links

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

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.verportugal.net , accessed January 27, 2013
  5. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
  6. ↑ geminacoes ( Memento from October 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive )