Chamusca Municipality
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Template: Infobox city in Portugal / maintenance / management location is empty Template: Infobox city in Portugal / Maintenance / Web page is blank Chamusca [ ʃɐmuʃkɐ ] is a small town ( Vila ) in Portugal.
History
Here there was already a small village, when King V. D.Afonso the area in 1449 was the father of Rui Gomes da Silva, who was a childhood friend of the later Spanish-Portuguese King Philip II. Chamusca belonged to the circle of Santarém, until it was raised in 1561 the seat of its own circle, and to the small town ( Vila ) in the year.
Management
The circle
Chamusca is the administrative seat of the homonymous district ( concelho ) in the district of Santarém. June 30, 2011 had the circle 10,124 inhabitants in an area of 746 km ².
The neighboring districts are (clockwise starting from the north ): Vila Nova da Barquinha, Constância, Abrantes, Ponte de Sor, Coruche, Almeirim, Alpiarça, Santarém and Golegã.
The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) lying in circle Chamusca:
- Carregueira
- Chamusca
- Chouto
- Parreira
- Pinheiro Grande
- Elm
- Vale de Cavalos
Demographics
Local holiday
- Ascension of Christ
Sons and daughters of the town
- Rui Gomes da Silva (1516-1573), Spanish nobleman, Youth confidant of King Philip II
- José de Egídio Gordilho Barbuda (1787-1830), military and politicians in Brazil
- João Nepomuceno de Macedo, Baron of São Cosme (1793-1837), Military
- Francisco Maria do Prado Lacerda (1827-1892), Bishop of Angra in the Azores
- João Joaquim Isidro dos Reis (1849-1924), lawyer and politician
- Belard José da Fonseca (1889-1969), Civil
- Carlos Amaro (1879-1946), poet, playwright and Republican politician
- Alvaro Amaral net (1903-1971), writer, journalist and historian
- Manuel Ferreira Lima (1939-2001), managers and politicians, 1978 Transport and Communications Minister
- José Cid (* 1942), Rock-/Popmusiker, singer