Tourais

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Tourais
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Tourais (Portugal)
Tourais
Basic data
Region : Centro
Sub-region : Beiras e Serra da Estrela
District : Guarda
Concelho : Seia
Coordinates : 40 ° 28 ′  N , 7 ° 45 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 28 ′  N , 7 ° 45 ′  W
Residents: 1441 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 21.44 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 67 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 6270-586
politics
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Tourais
Rua Dr. Montenegro
6270-586 Tourais

Tourais is a locality and former municipality in Portugal .

history

Finds prove a settlement by Romans . The current place was probably repopulated in the course of the new settlements in connection with the medieval Reconquista . In the royal surveys of 1258 Tourais is already listed as an independent municipality. It was the seat of an independent circle until the administrative reforms after the Liberal Revolution in 1822 and the Miguelistenkrieg that followed in 1834 . As a result, the Tourais district was dissolved in the middle of the 19th century and Seia was incorporated.

With the territorial reform of 2013, Tourais was merged with Lajes to form a new municipality.

administration

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

Tourais was a municipality ( freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Seia , in the Guarda district . On June 30, 2011 the community had 1,441 inhabitants on an area of ​​21.4 km².

The following places are in the former municipality:

  • Figueiredo
  • Pereiro
  • Pradinho
  • Vila Verde
  • Lapa de Tourais
  • Tourais

As part of the administrative reorganization in Portugal , the municipality was dissolved on September 29, 2013 and merged with Lajes to form the new municipality of União das Freguesias de Tourais e Lajes . Tourais became the seat of the new municipality.

Web links

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. ↑ Overview of code assignments from Freguesias on epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu
  3. ↑ Information about Tourais on the website of the Seia district administration, accessed on March 7, 2015
  4. ↑ Legal text (Portuguese; PDF access 2.4 MB), accessed on March 7, 2015