Ourém (Portugal)

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Ourém
coat of arms map
Ourém coat of arms
Ourém (Portugal)
Ourém
Basic data
Region : Centro
Sub-region : Médio Tejo
District : Santarém
Concelho : Ourém
Coordinates : 39 ° 39 ′  N , 8 ° 35 ′  W Coordinates: 39 ° 39 ′  N , 8 ° 35 ′  W
Residents: 45,940 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 416.68 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 110 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 2490
Ourém district
flag map
Flag of Ourém Location of the Ourém district
Residents: 45,940 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface: 416.68 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density : 110 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities : 13
administration
Administration address: Câmara Municipal de Ourém
Praça D. Maria II, nº. 1
2490-499 Ourém
President of the Câmara Municipal: Luís Albuquerque ( PSD )
Website: www.cm-ourem.pt

Ourém [ oˈɾɐ̃i ] is a city in Portugal , in the Santarém district in Portugal. It has approx. 4,991 inhabitants (as of 2004) . Fátima, a Catholic pilgrimage site belonging to the Ourém region, is known worldwide .

history

Ourém Castle

The place was known as Abdegas among the Moors until it was conquered by the Arabs in 1136 by D. Afonso Henriques , who later became the first king of Portugal . From then on it was named after a nearby castle Aurem, from which the current name developed. Ourém received its first town charter in 1180.

The third Count of Ourém, Nuno Álvares Pereira , secured the independence of the Kingdom of Portugal with the victory in the Battle of Aljubarrota in 1385. The fourth Count of Ourém, Alfonso de Braganza, invited the royal council, the Cortes, to come here .

After the surrounding areas of the region suffered considerable damage from the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 and the Napoleonic invasions in the early 19th century, Ourém grew into a small town called Vila Nova de Ourém. In the course of the various administrative reforms after the Liberal Revolution of 1822 and the Miguelistenkrieg Ourém became the seat of an independent district in the middle of the 19th century. In one of his parishes, in Fátima , an apparition of Mary is said to have taken place on May 13, 1917. As a result, one of the largest pilgrimage sites in the Catholic world came into being here, with several million visitors annually.

In 1991 the previous small town ( Vila ) was elevated to a town ( Cidade ).

Sports

The women's football department of Atlético Ouriense is well known nationwide . She won the national championship of Portugal in 2013 and 2014 . The CD Fátima is one of the other football clubs in the district .

administration

The City Hall ( Câmara Municipal ) of Ourém

The circle

Ourém is the administrative seat of a district of the same name ( concelho ) in the Santarém district . On June 30, 2011 the district had 45,940 inhabitants on an area of ​​416.7 km².

The neighboring regions are (starting clockwise in the north): Pombal , Alvaiázere , Ferreira do Zêzere , Tomar , Torres Novas , Alcanena , Batalha and Leiria .

With the regional reform in September 2013 , several municipalities were merged into new municipalities, so that the number of municipalities decreased from 18 to 13.

The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) are in the Ourém district:

Ourém district
local community Population
(2011)
Area
km²
Density of
population / km²
LAU
code
Alburitel 1,179 11.19 105 142101
Atouguia 2,454 19.61 125 142102
Caxarias 2,166 18.03 120 142104
Espite 1.104 19.78 56 142105
Fatima 11,596 71.84 161 142106
Freixianda, Ribeira do Farrio e Formigais 3,693 64.23 58 142119
Gondemaria e Olival 3,170 30.11 105 142120
Matas e Cercal 1,728 20.75 83 142121
Nossa Senhora da Piedade 7,217 20.42 353 142115
Nossa Senhora das Misericórdias 5,077 40.67 125 142111
Rio de Couros e Casal dos Bernardos 2,798 44.11 63 142122
Seiça 2,076 24.88 83 142113
Urqueira 1,682 31.06 54 142114
Ourém district 45,940 416.68 110 1421

Population development

Population in Ourém County (1801–2011)
 1801   1849   1900   1930   1960   1981   1991   2001   2004   2011 
12,803 13,033 25,726 34,534 47,511 41,376 40.185 46.216 49,269 45,887

Municipal holiday

  • 20th June

Town twinning

sons and daughters of the town

traffic

To the east of the city is the Seiça-Ourém railway station on the Linha do Norte .

Web links

Commons : Ourém, Portugal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c 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://www.igeo.pt/atlas/Cap2/Cap2d_p107_image.html
  4. www.verportugal.net , accessed on January 21, 2014
  5. ^ Publication of the administrative reorganization in the Diário da República gazette of January 28, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014
  6. Page of the town twinning ( memento of the original from April 7, 2016 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. from the district administration website, accessed January 26, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cm-ourem.pt