Penamacor 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 Penamacor (also PENAMACOR ) is a small town ( Vila ) and a circle in Portugal with 1572 inhabitants (as at 30 June 2011). The place belongs to speech de Judiarias ( Portuguese for: Network of Jewish quarter ), an association of places with historically significant Jewish communities.
History
The Visigoth king Vamba comes after blank guesswork out Penamacor. His first city rights ( Foral ) was the site in 1189 by King Sancho I, who Penamacor to Gualdim Pais gave. The town grew with the onset of colonization policy, and got importance due to its strategic location in the line of defense against Aragon and Castile. He was attached with castles and raised 1199 for Vila ( town with administrative privileges). 1217 confirmed King II D.Afonso city rights by King Manuel I in 1510 renewed.
Management
The circle
Penamacor is the seat of an eponymous district ( concelho ) in the district of Castelo Branco. June 30, 2011 had the circle 5652 inhabitants in an area of 563.8 km ².
In the east borders the county on Spain, the Portuguese Neighboring districts are (clockwise starting from the north ): Sabugal, Idanha -a-Nova, Castelo Branco and Fundão.
The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) lying in circle Penamacor:
- Águas
- Aldeia de João Pires
- Aldeia do Bispo
- Aranhas
- Bemposta
- Benquerença
- Meimão
- Meimoa
- Pedrógão de São Pedro
- Penamacor
- Salvador
- Vale da Senhora da Póvoa
Demographics
Local holiday
- Easter Monday
Twinning
- France France: Clamart in the department of Hauts -de -Seine
- Spain: Valverde del Fresno in the province of Cáceres
Sons and daughters of the town
- António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches (1699-1783), physician, translator and encyclopedist, philosopher, educator and historian
- Teodora Alexandrina de Almeida de Lima Pais Castelo Branco (1809-1889), noble landowner and philanthropist
- Francisco Pinto da Cunha Leal (1888-1970), politician in the winter 1921/22, Prime Minister
- Tarzan Taborda (1935-2005), wrestler
- Joaquim Furtado ( born 1948 ), a television journalist, father of Catarina Furtado
- António José Seguro ( * 1962), politician, since 2011 General Secretary of the Partido Socialista
Francisco Pinto da Cunha Leal