Vinhais

Vinhais
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Basic data
Region :	Norte
Sub-region :	Terras de Trás-os-Montes
District :	Bragança
Concelho :	Vinhais
Coordinates :	41 ° 50 ′  N , 7 ° 0 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 50 ′  N , 7 ° 0 ′  W
Residents:	2245 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	32.01 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	70 inhabitants per km²
Vinhais County
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Residents:	9066 (as of June 30, 2011)
Surface:	694.74 km² (as of January 1, 2010)
Population density :	13 inhabitants per km²
Number of municipalities :	26th
administration
Administration address:	Câmara Municipal de Vinhais Rua das Freiras n.º 13 5320-326 Vinhais
President of the Câmara Municipal:	Américo Jaime Afonso Pereira ( PS )
Website:	www.cm-vinhais.pt

Vinhais is a small town ( Vila ) and a district ( Concelho ) in Portugal with 2245 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2011). The place name is derived from a traditionally important activity in the district, viticulture.

Snow-covered landscape of the Vinhais district

history

Archaeological finds and excavations prove a prehistoric settlement of the district area, for example the Castro Ciradelha or the excavation of the Iron Age settlement Castrilhão . The current place was first officially mentioned in the 12th century. In 1253 King D. Afonso III gave him his first town charter ( Foral ), which were renewed by King Manuel I in 1512 .

When in 1384 the entitled to inherit the kingdom of Castile , despite the Portuguese Revolution of 1383 sought to monopolize the neighboring country, hoisted the flag Vinhais Castile and refused the neuproklamierten Portuguese King John I allegiance.

After the proclamation of the Portuguese Republic in 1910 , Paiva Couceiro occupied Vinhais temporarily in 1911 as part of one of his anti-republican coup attempts.

administration

View over Tuizelo

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Until 2013, the district ( concelho ) of Vinhais consisted of the following municipalities ( freguesias ) :

Vinhais County

local community	Population (2011)	Area km²	Density of population / km²	LAU code
Agrochão	280	17.49	16	041201
Candedo	331	21.44	15th	041203
Celas	269	37.88	7th	041204
Curopos e Vale de Janeiro	313	36.20	9	041236
Edral	198	26.16	8th	041206
Edrosa	151	21.81	7th	041207
Ervedosa	376	30.15	12	041208
Moimenta e Montouto	278	43.37	6th	041237
Nunes e Ousilhão	257	21.49	12	041238
Paçó	191	16.67	11	041215
Penhas Juntas	255	26.35	10	041216
Quirás e Pinheiro Novo	286	59.19	5	041239
Rebordelo	618	21.07	29	041219
Santalha	254	29.04	9	041221
Sobreiró de Baixo e Alvaredos	369	26.79	14th	041240
Soeira, Fresulfe e Mofreita	224	46.67	5	041241
Travanca e Santa Cruz	171	23.20	7th	041242
Tuizelo	387	31.35	12	041226
Vale das Fontes	347	17.76	20th	041227
Vila Boa de Ousilhao	184	8.28	22nd	041229
Vila Verde	186	14.88	12	041230
Vilar de Lomba e Sao Jomil	237	29.48	8th	041243
Vilar de Ossos	269	17.70	15th	041232
Vilar de Peregrinos	155	15.99	10	041233
Vilar Seco de Lomba	235	22.32	11	041234
Vinhais	2,245	32.01	70	041235
Vinhais County	9,066	694.74	13	0412

Vinhais is the seat of a district of the same name that borders Spain in the north . The neighboring districts are (starting clockwise in the north): Bragança , Macedo de Cavaleiros , Mirandela , Valpaços and Chaves .

	North: Spain
West: Valpaços and Chaves	Vinhais	East: Bragança
	Sud: Macedo de Cavaleiros and Mirandela

Population development

Population in Vinhais County (1801–2011)
1801	1849	1900	1930	1960	1981	1991	2001	2011
6 084	10 697	19 842	19 525	26 577	16 142	12 727	10 646	9 066

Sons and daughters of Vinhais

Jorge Lima Barreto in the Café Majestic in Porto (1970s)

• Pedro Leão Portocarro (1576–?), Traveler and author
• Manuel Pinto de Morais Bacelar (1741–1816), noble general, opponent of Massénas in the Napoleonic invasions
• Henrique João de Barahona Fernandes (1907–1992), Rector of the University of Lisbon , psychiatric doctor and author
• Alfredo Margarido (1928–2010), writer, painter and university lecturer
• Jorge Lima Barreto (1947–2011), musicologist and experimental musician (with Telectu, among others )
• Armando Vara (* 1954), bank manager and politician, former youth and sports minister
• Carlos Magno (* 1955), journalist, co-founder of the TSF radio station

Web links

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

• Map of the Freguesia Vinhais 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. ↑ www.ine.pt - indicator resident population by place of residence and sex; Decennial in the database of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística
4. ↑ www.verportugal.net , accessed February 9, 2013