Vila Cova a Coelheira (Vila Nova de Paiva)

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Vila Cova à Coelheira
coat of arms map
The coat of arms is still missing
Vila Cova à Coelheira (Portugal)
Vila Cova à Coelheira
Basic data
Region : Centro
Sub-region : Dão-Lafoes
District : Viseu
Concelho : Vila Nova de Paiva
Coordinates : 40 ° 53 ′  N , 7 ° 48 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 53 ′  N , 7 ° 48 ′  W
Residents: 1109 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 32.03 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 35 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 3650-120
politics
Mayor : Jorge Manuel Pereira dos Reis ( PS )
Address of the municipal administration: Junta de Freguesia de Vila Cova à Coelheira
Rua da Capela
3650-120 Vila Cova à Coelheira

Vila Cova à Coelheira is a town and municipality in northern Portugal .

Stone cross in Vila Cova à Coelheira

history

The current place was probably created with the resettlements during the Reconquista . In 1258 the community came to the Hospitaller Order .

King D. Manuel I gave the place city rights in 1514 and made it the seat of a separate district. In the course of the administrative reforms after the Liberal Revolution in 1822 , the independent district of Vila Cova à Coelheira was dissolved in 1836 and has been a municipality of the district of Vila Nova de Paiva ever since.

administration

Vila Cova à Coelheira is the seat of a municipality of the same name ( Freguesia ) in the district ( concelho ) of Vila Nova de Paiva , in the Viseu district . It has 1109 inhabitants on an area of ​​32 km² (as of June 30, 2011).

The following villages make up the municipality of Vila Cova à Coelheira:

  • Borral sharks
  • Carvalha
  • Cascano
  • Malhada
  • Meieiras
  • Teixelo
  • Vila Cova à Coelheira

Web links

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. ^ Entry of the town hall in the Portuguese list of monuments SIPA (see under Cronologia ), accessed on June 19, 2015