Pias (Serpa)
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| Basic data | ||||||
| Region : | Alentejo | |||||
| Sub-region : | Baixo Alentejo | |||||
| District : | Be yes | |||||
| Concelho : | Serpa | |||||
| Coordinates : | 37 ° 56 ′ N , 7 ° 25 ′ W | |||||
| Residents: | 2852 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
| Surface: | 163.86 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
| Population density : | 17 inhabitants per km² | |||||
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| Mayor : | José Augusto Martins Moreira ( PCP-PEV ) | |||||
| Address of the municipal administration: | Junta de Freguesia de Pias Rua Luís de Camões, 33 7830-260 Pias |
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| Website: | www.freguesiadepias.pt | |||||
Pias is a place and a municipality in the Portuguese region of Alentejo .
The landmark of the place is a listed clock tower from the 19th century.
history
The listed Manueline chapel of Ermida de Santa Luzia from the 16th century
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Finds prove that the municipality was settled into the Bronze Age .
At the time of Roman rule, it was a town in the Lusitania Province . Two Roman roads crossed here . This importance as the location of two regionally important traffic routes was retained under the Arab rule in al-Andalus from 711 AD .
After the Reconquista in Portugal in the 13th century, the country was not assigned to a knightly order, which in the following epochs made the clear administrative affiliation of the area difficult and led to the dispute between Moura and Serpa .
The present-day location was presumably rebuilt in the course of changes in the allocation of land around 1644 and with newly settled farm workers.
The place experienced a relative development spurt after the arrival of the railroad, when the Ramal de Moura line reached the municipality in 1909.
On June 30, 1989, Pias was elevated to a small town ( Vila ).
administration
Pias is the seat of a municipality of the same name ( Freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Serpa in the Beja district . The community has an area of 163.9 km² and 2852 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011). This results in a population density of 17.4 inh / km².
There are two villages in the municipality:
- Mina da Orada
- Pias
Web links
- Map of the Freguesia Pias (Serpa) at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
- Website of the Pias Municipal Council
- Page on the municipality of Pias at the Serpa district administration
- Entry to Pias in the Mapas de Portugal
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
- ↑ Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
- ^ Entry of the Torre do Relógio in the Portuguese list of monuments SIPA, accessed on April 15, 2017
- ^ Entry of the Ermida de Santa Luzia in the Portuguese list of monuments SIPA, accessed on April 15, 2017
- ^ Page on the history of the municipality , website of the Pias municipal administration, accessed on April 15, 2017
