Seixas (Caminha)
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| Region : | Norte | |||||
| Sub-region : | Alto Minho | |||||
| District : | Viana do Castelo | |||||
| Concelho : | Caminha | |||||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 54 ′ N , 8 ° 49 ′ W | |||||
| Residents: | 1502 (as of June 30, 2011) | |||||
| Surface: | 8.33 km² (as of January 1, 2010) | |||||
| Population density : | 180 inhabitants per km² | |||||
| Postal code : | 4910-341 | |||||
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| Mayor : | Rui José Gomes Ramalhosa ( PS ) | |||||
| Address of the municipal administration: | Junta de Freguesia de Seixas Av. Joaquim Maria Portela, nº 191 4910-341 Seixas |
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| Website: | www.jf-seixas.com | |||||
Seixas ( IPA : [ sɘiʃaʃ ]) is a town and municipality in northern Portugal .
history
The first documented mention of the place comes from the year 1071, from a deed of gift from the Galician King D. Garcia to D. Jorge, the bishop of Tui . Probably the later first king of Portugal, D. Afonso Henriques , gave Seixas the first city rights before the independence of the Kingdom of Portugal in 1139 . However, the document was destroyed in a city fire and has not been preserved, and so the document of the renewed city rights by King D. Afonso III is valid . from 1262 as the first town charter of the place. As an independent municipality, Seixas has been in the registers since 1156, but still belonged to the diocese of Tui on the other side of the Portuguese border, as was the case in the royal surveys of 1258. Only under Diogo de Sousa, who was Archbishop of Braga from 1514 to 1532 , became the entire Minho and thus also Seixas assigned to the Archdiocese of Braga, and so finally also ecclesiastically assigned to Portugal, to which it belonged politically since the establishment of the empire.
administration
Seixas is the seat of a municipality of the same name ( Freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Caminha in the district of Viana do Castelo . It has 1502 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011).
The following places are in the municipality of Seixas:
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Sons and daughters of the church
- Miguel Ventura Terra (1866–1919), important architect of the Portuguese Belle Epoque
- Miguel Nogueira Júnior (1883–1953), architect, received twice the most important Portuguese architecture award, the Prémio Valmor
Web links
- Map of the Freguesia Seixas at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
- Official website of the local government
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 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
- ^ Website of the community history on the website of the local government, accessed on March 24, 2014
