Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (German roughly: "Behind the mountains and Upper Douro") was one of the eleven provinces of Portugal from 1936 to 1976 . Today they only exist in colloquial language or in historically based terms.
Vila Real was the capital of the province, which included the current districts of Vila Real and Bragança , plus four districts ( concelhos ) of the current district of Viseu ( Armamar , Lamego , São João da Pesqueira and Tabuaço ), and one district of the Guarda district ( Vila Nova de Foz Côa ). Its neighboring provinces were Minho (west), Douro Litoral (southwest), and Beira Alta (south), and the Spanish provinces of Ourense (north), Zamora (east) and Salamanca (south-east).
The province was characterized on the one hand by the sub-region Alto Douro (Upper Douro), with its extensive wine-growing areas on the Douro , on the other hand by the archaic , sparsely populated and isolated highlands of Trás-os-Montes (behind the mountains), which lead to the foothills belongs to the Castilian plateau .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Peter Burmeister: Portugal. 3rd edition, Dumont Art Travel Guide, Ostfildern 2008, p. 237f ( ISBN 978-3-7701-4416-7 )
- ^ Lydia Hohenberger, Jürgen Strohmaier: Portugal. 2nd edition, DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2009, p. 298 ( ISBN 978-3-7701-7658-8 )
