Ourém 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 Ourém [ oɾɐi ] is a city in Portugal, in the district of Santarém in Portugal. It has about 4,991 inhabitants ( as of 2004). Known worldwide for the District of Ourém belonging Catholic sanctuary of Fátima.
History
The place was known among the Moors than Abdegas until it was conquered in 1136 by D. Afonso Henriques, the first king of Portugal later by the Arabs. Henceforth he was named after a nearby castle Aurem, from which evolved the present name. 1180 Ourém received its first city charter.
The third Earl of Ourém, Nuno Álvares Pereira, secured the victory in the Battle of Aljubarrota 1385 the independence of the Kingdom of Portugal. The fourth Earl of Ourém, Alfonso of Braganza, the royal council invited here, the Cortes.
After the surrounding towns in the region by the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 and the Napoleonic invasions suffered considerable damage in the early 19th century, Ourém grew into a small town named Vila Nova de Ourém. In the course of various administrative reforms of the Liberal Revolution in 1822 and the Miguelistenkrieg Ourém was middle of the 19th century headquarters of an independent circuit. In one of his churches, in Fatima, is said to have issued on May 13, 1917 a Marian apparition. As a result, here was one of the greatest shrines in the Catholic world, with several million visitors annually.
Of 1991 the small town ( Vila ) to the city ( Cidade ) was charged.
Sports
Nationally known is the women's football department of Atlético Ouriense. There, the club won the championship in 2013 the top league in the country, the Campeonato Nacional. Among the other football clubs in the circle of the CD Fátima is mentioned.
Management
The circle
Ourém is the administrative seat of the homonymous district ( concelho ) in the district of Santarém. June 30, 2011 had the circle 45 887 inhabitants in an area of 416.6 km ².
The neighboring districts are (clockwise starting from the north ): Pombal, Alvaiázere, Ferreira do Zêzere, Tomar, Torres Novas, Alcanena, Batalha and Leiria.
The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) are in the county Ourém:
- Alburitel
- Atouguia
- Casal dos Bernardo
- Caxarias
- Cercal
- Espite
- Fátima
- Formigais
- Freixianda
- Gondemaria
- Matas
- Nossa Senhora da Piedade ( municipality )
- Nossa Senhora das Misericórdias ( municipality )
- Olival
- Ribeira do Farrio
- Rio de Couros
- Seiça
- Urqueira
Demographics
Local holiday
- June 20
Twinning
- France Le Plessis- Trévise, France ( since 1992)
- Poland Częstochowa, Poland ( since 1997)
- Cape Verde Sao Filipe, Cape Verde (since 1999)
- Monapo Mozambique, Mozambique (since 2001)
- Germany Altötting, Germany (since 2009)
- Romania Pitesti, Romania ( since 2011 )
Sons and daughters of the town
- Miguel de Sousa Melo e Alvim (1784-1855), military and politicians, 1828-29 Secretary of the Navy of Brazil
- Maria de Jesus (1893-2009), at number 22 in the list of the oldest people
- Lúcia dos Santos (1907-2005), one of the three shepherd children of the Marian apparition
- Francisco Marto (1908-1919), one of the three shepherd children of the Marian apparition
- Jacinta Marto (1910-1920), one of the three shepherd children of the Marian apparition
- António dos Reis Rodrigues (1918-2009), Roman Catholic Bishop
- José da Silva Lopes ( born 1932 ), economist and politician, Minister of Finance 1978
- Luandino Vieira ( born 1945 ), Portuguese - Angolan writer
- Nuno Filipe Rodrigues Laranjeiro ( b. 1983 ), football player