Tarouca

This article covers the city in Portugal. For people with this name, see Silva-Tarouca .

Tarouca
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Basic data
Region :	Norte
Sub-region :	Douro
District :	Viseu
Concelho :	Tarouca
Coordinates :	41 ° 1 ′  N , 7 ° 47 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 1 ′  N , 7 ° 47 ′  W
Residents:	3553 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	19.13 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	186 inhabitants per km²
politics
Address of the municipal administration:	Junta de Freguesia de Tarouca Avenida Restauradores Concelho Lt 19 Salzedas 3610-073 Salzedes
Tarouca county
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Residents:	8048 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	100.1 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	80 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities :	7th
administration
Administration address:	Câmara Municipal de Tarouca Av.Dr. Alexandre Taveira Cardoso 3610-128 Tarouca
President of the Câmara Municipal:	Mário Caetano Teixeira Ferreia ( PS )
Website:	www.cm-tarouca.pt

Tarouca is a city ( Cidade ) and a district ( concelho ) in Portugal with 8048 inhabitants on an area of ​​100.1 km². (As of June 30, 2011)

Sao Pedro Church in Tarouca

history

The first documented mention comes from the 6th century AD. Today's Tarouca belonged to the Visigoth Empire and was a parish of the Lamego diocese . The place was called Castro de Rei and was the seat of a district. In the course of their conquest from 711 , the Moors also subjugated Castro de Rei . The current place name probably comes from this time and developed from the Arabic word taroca , which means frequented or frequently visited . At the time Lamego had business ties to the Emirate of Córdoba and then the Caliphate of Córdoba , and in this context nearby Tarouca was important, which was already at the time of the Roman occupation on two crossing Roman roads and thus traditionally a relative one Importance as a trading place.

King Ferdinand of León took Tarouca from the Moors in 1057 . Portugal's first king, D.Afonso Henriques , had the first Cistercian monastery built here from 1140 with the São João de Tarouca monastery, which was followed by the Salzedas monastery , which was expanded in 1159 and handed over to the Cistercians in 1168 , on the initiative of Dona Teresa Afonso, wife of D. Afonso Henriques teacher Egas Moniz . The district town of Tarouca received its first city rights in 1262 , still under the name of Castro Rei . From 1364 the place was then already led as Tarouca.

In 1896 the independent district of Tarouca was briefly dissolved and restored in 1898 , now in its current composition. Tarouca, previously run as a small town ( Vila ), was elevated to a town ( Cidade ) in 2004 .

Buildings

• Tarouca Monastery
• Salzedas Monastery

administration

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Tarouca is the seat of a district of the same name ( concelho ). The neighboring areas are (starting clockwise in the north): Armamar , Moimenta da Beira , Vila Nova de Paiva , Castro Daire and Lamego .

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

The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) are in the Tarouca County:

Tarouca county

local community	Population (2011)	Area km²	Density of population / km²	LAU code
Gouviães e Ucanha	817	8.94	91	182011
Granja Nova e Vila Chã da Beira	566	13.54	42	182012
Mondim da Beira	786	7.08	111	182004
Saltedas	767	8.84	87	182005
Sao Joao de Tarouca	606	18.59	33	182006
Tarouca e Dálvares	4,245	21.92	194	182013
Várzea da Serra	261	21.19	12	182009
Tarouca county	8,048	100.10	80	1820

Population development

Population in Tarouca County (1801–2011)
1801	1849	1900	1930	1960	1981	1991	2001	2011
3,440	5.163	10,254	10,388	10,845	9,368	9,579	8,308	8,048

Especially since the 1960s, the district experienced significant waves of emigration. It is estimated that around 3000 people of Tarouca origin live in Switzerland and other European countries.

Municipal holiday

• September 29th

Town twinning

•  Brazil : Paraíso do Tocantins , State of Tocantins
•  Portugal : Alcobaça

In addition, the following city partnerships are in the pipeline:

•  Italy : Montemarciano
•  Italy : Chiaravalle
•  Spain : Benaguasil , Valencia Province
•  France : Quincy-sous-Sénart

traffic

Tarouca is located on the N226 national road, about 10 km southeast of Lamego and its connection to the A24 motorway.

sons and daughters of the town

• José Leite de Vasconcelos (1858–1941), author, ethnographer, philologist, linguist and archaeologist
• Joaquim Bernardo Cardoso Botelho da Costa (1863–1926), doctor, author, military and farmer. Entrepreneurs, especially in the African colonies

Web links

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

• Map of the Freguesia Tarouca at the Instituto Geográfico do Exército
• Official website

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. ↑ http://codigopostal.ciberforma.pt/dir/empresa2.asp?emp=4686
4. ↑ ^{a b} www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
5. ^ João Fonseca: Dicionário do Nome das Terras . 2nd edition, Casa das Letras, Cruz Quebrada 2007, p. 247f ( ISBN 978-9724617305 )
6. ↑ History page ( Memento of the original from August 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the district website, accessed September 16, 2013 
7. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
8. ↑ Portrait of the Circle ( Memento of the original from August 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the district website (in the Município de Tarouca paragraph ), accessed September 16, 2013 
9. ↑ Page of the partnerships ( Memento of the original from August 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the district website, accessed September 16, 2013 
10. ↑ www.anmp.pt , accessed on September 16, 2013