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Abrantes is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 715.0 km and a total population of 41,560 inhabitants. Its believed that the city was originally established during the celtic period, although the name Abrantes comes from the latin Aurantes which indicates that the region had gold.
The present Mayor is Nlson Marques Carvalho (Socialist) and the President of the Municipal Assembly is Jorge Laco Costa (Socialist).
Abrantes was made city in 14 June 1916, this date is celebrated every year on this same day.
gueda is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 335.0 km and a total population of 49,456 inhabitants.
The municipality is composed of 20 parishes, and is located in the District of Aveiro.
The present Mayor is Nair Barreto Alves da Silva (Social Democrat) and the President of the Municipal Assembly is Horcio Alves Maral (Social Democrat).
The municipal holiday is the Monday seven weeks after Easter.
Albufeira is a Portuguese city in the Algarve. It has 19,500 inhabitants.
Alccer do Sal is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 1465.0 km and a total population of 13,716 inhabitants.
The municipality is composed of 6 parishes, and is located in the district of Setbal.
The present Mayor is Manuel Rogrio Sousa Brito (Communist) and the President of the Municipal Assembly is Antnio dos Mrtires Balona (Communist).
The municipal holiday is June 24.
Parishes
Alccer do Sal (Santa Maria do Castelo)
Alccer do Sal (Santiago)
Comporta
Santa Susana
So Martinho
Torro
Alcobaa is in the district of Leiria, in Portugal (though formerly included in the province of Estremadura), on the Alcoa and Baca rivers, from which it derives its name.
Alcobaa grew along the valleys of the rivers Alcoa and Baa.
Introduction
A town that only became notable in the 12th Century when it became the site for the important construction of Portugals largest church. In the month of March in 1147 the fledgling King, Dom Afonso Henriques, defeated the Moors by capturing the town of Santarm. As a suitable memory to this splendid victory he vowed to build a magnificent home for the Order of Cistercians. It took another 76 years before this task was completed. The monarchy continued to endow the Monastery with further construction and 60 years later King Dinis built the main cloister but it was only in 1252 that the Monastery was inaugurated within the church. In the church are the tombs of King Peter I and his murdered mistress Ins de Castro and with it the story of the tragic liaison between Pedro and his ever-lasting love for Ins. Forced at an early age by royal duty he had to marry Constanza, the Infanta of Castile. She died within a short time of the marriage ceremony and created the opportunity for Dom Pedro to escape with his true love and live in the city of Coimbra. King Afonso IV his father, believing that the family of Ins to be a threat to his own kingdom had her murdered. Shortly after the death of his father Dom Pedro declared that he had married Ins in a prior secret ceremony in Bragana, promptly taking revenge on the killers in a very gruesome manner and exhumed her body.
He presented the embalmed corpse at court with a crown on her head and demanded that all his courtiers kneel and individually pay homage to her decomposed hand. Today, their ornate tombs face each other so that on the Judgment Day his first sight would be of his beloved Ins. During the following centuries the monks from this monastery had an influencing effect on Portuguese culture. Notably, in 1269 they were the first to give public lessons to their flock, and later they produced the authoritative history on Portugal in a series of books. In 1810 the invading French pillaged the Abbey taking with them most of the many treasures including a noteworthy library. Whatever the items remaining were then later stolen in 1834 during an anti-clerical riot and the extinction of religious Orders in Portugal.
Almada is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 70.0 km and a total population of 164,844 inhabitants.
The municipality is composed of 11 parishes, and is located in the district of Setbal.
The present Mayor is Maria Emlia Neto de Sousa (Communist) and the President of the Municipal Assembly is Jos Manuel Maia Almeida (Communist).
The municipal holiday is June 24.
The city of Almada is the seat of the municipality. Small, but densely populated, the municipality is limited from the east by Seixal and from the south by Sesimbra. Almada is a coastal municipality, bordering with the Atlantic Ocean.
The municipality received a foral from Dom Sancho I in 1190.
Almeirim is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 222.0 km and a total population of 22,434 inhabitants.
The municipality is composed of 4 parishes, and is located in the district of Santarm.
The present Mayor is Jos Joaquim Sousa Gomes (Socialist) and the President of the Municipal Assembly is Armindo Castelo Bento (Socialist).
The municipal holiday is Maundy Thursday.
Parishes
Almeirim
Benfica do Ribatejo
Fazendas de Almeirim
Raposa
Relevant Facts
It was in 1411 that king D. Joo I, Mestre de Avis, founded “Al-Meirim”. Few that have travelled through the city know that such a “young” city was once a place of stay for Portuguese royals. It was elevated to the status of city in the early 1980’s.
Amadora is a city and municipality (Portuguese: concelho or municpio) in Portugal, in the northwest of the Lisbon metropolitan area. The city and municipality population is 175,872 in eleven freguesias (parishes). With an area of 23.77 km2, it is the most densely populated municipality of Portugal.
The municipality was formed on September 11, 1979, when it ceased being a freguesia of Oeiras.
Every year, Amadora city organizes the Amadora International Comics Festival.
It’s essentially a residential suburb in conurbation with Lisbon with some industries.
Angra, or Angra do Heroismo Is the capital of Terceira Island, the former capital of the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores, and chief town of an administrative district, comprising of nine islands: Terceira, So Jorge Island, Graciosa, Sao Miguel Island, Pico Island, Santa Maria Island, Flores Island, Faial Island, and Corvo Island. Angra is built on the south coast of Terceira in 3838? N 2713? W. It is the headquarters of a military command, and the residence of a Roman Catholic bishop; its principal buildings are the cathedral, military college, arsenal and observatory. The harbour, now of little commercial or strategic importance, but formerly a celebrated naval station, is sheltered on the west and south-west by the promontory of Mt. Brazil; but it is inferior to the neighbouring ports of Ponta Delgada and Horta. The foreign trade is not large, and consists chiefly in the exportation of pineapples and other fruit. Angra served as a refuge for Queen Maria II of Portugal from 1830 to 1833. It also served refure for Almeida Garrett during the Napoleonic Wars.
The population is 35,581 (2001) and the area is 237.52 km. The density is 149.80 people/km. It is one of the largest municipalities in the Azores. The district includes the southwestern half of the island of Terceira. It is encircled almost entirely by the Atlantic Ocean except for the east. It is bordered by Praia da Vitria to the west.
Area code: (351) 295-40x-xxx
Postal code: 9701
Name of inhabitants: Angrense
Amora, plural Amoraim, (from the Hebrew root amar “to say” or “tell over”), were renowned Jewish scholars who “said” or “told over” the teachings of the Oral law, from about 200 to 500 CE in Babylonia and Palestine. Their legal discussions and debates were eventually codified in the Gemara.
The first and foremost Babylonian Amora was Abba Arika, respectfully referred to as Rav. His contemporary and frequent debate partner was Samuel of Nehardea. The foremost Amoraim in Palestine were Jonathan bar Nappaha and Simeon ben Lakish. Codification of the Gemara began at the end of the fourth century by Ashi and is generally thought to have been completed by 500 CE.
Other Amoraim include:
Abaye
Rava
Abbahu
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