Santalha

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Santalha
coat of arms map
Santalha coat of arms
Santalha (Portugal)
Santalha
Basic data
Region : Norte
Sub-region : Terras de Trás-os-Montes
District : Bragança
Concelho : Vinhais
Coordinates : 41 ° 54 ′  N , 7 ° 6 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 54 ′  N , 7 ° 6 ′  W
Residents: 254 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 29.04 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 8.7 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 5320-153
politics
Mayor : Luís António Bebião Pires ( PS )
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Santalha
Rua Cimo do Campo
5320-153 Santalha

Santalha is a town and municipality in north-eastern Portugal , in the Trás-os-Montes region .

The parish church of Santalha

history

The current location was established in the Middle Ages and was first listed in the royal registers in 1258. King D Dinis gave the town its first town charter in 1311, which King D Manuel I confirmed and renewed in 1512 as part of his administrative reforms.

In the course of the administrative reforms after the Liberal Revolution in 1822 , Santalho became the seat of its own circle in 1836, consisting of a. a. from most of the dissolved district of Vilar Seco de Lomba . Since the dissolution of Santalha County in 1853, it has been a municipality of Vinhais.

administration

Population development in the municipality of Santalha (1864–2011)

Santalha is a municipality ( freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Vinhais , in the Bragança district . The municipality has an area of ​​29 km² and has 254 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).

There are four villages in the municipality:

  • Contim
  • Penso
  • Santalha
  • Seixas

Web links

Commons : Santalha  - 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. Illustration of a leaflet from the municipal administration of Santalha on the local history in the home blog www.freguesiadesantalha.blogspot.de, accessed on July 8, 2016
  4. ^ Entry of the town hall of Vilar Seco de Lomba (under Cronologia ) in the Portuguese list of monuments SIPA, accessed on July 8, 2016