Carrazeda de Ansiães Municipality
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Template: Infobox city in Portugal / Maintenance / Web page is blank Carrazeda de Ansiães is a comune ( Freguesia ) and small town ( Vila ) in Portugal with 1680 inhabitants (as at 30 June 2011). The same circle belongs to the vineyards of the Alto Douro, the oldest protected wine region in the world and since 2001 a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
History
Antas and petroglyphs indicate a settlement of the area since Neolithic times, through Copper Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age through, until the arrival of the Romans in the 2nd century BC. , Which enlarged the location to the city and Aquas Quintianas called. They were followed by the Visigoths and Suevi, the annexing the place of the administrative district Pagus Auneco or the following Valiato de Alfândica.
With the arrival of the Moors, the town was a strategic stronghold of the Arabs. During the Reconquista, Ferdinand I also conquered the place Ansiães to which he gave the first city rights in the 11th century. After the independence of the Kingdom of Portugal Portugal's first king, D.Afonso Henriques, the place was in 1160 the first Portuguese city rights, which were in 1198 by King D.Sancho I. and confirmed in 1219 by King D.Afonso II. 1277 gave the king D.Afonso III. him additional market rights.
Renewed in 1510 King Manuel I, the city rights. A large number of citizens Ansiães accompanied King Sebastian on his expedition to North Africa, where they in the battle of Alcácer - Quibir found 1578 death. As a result of this population decline, the city experienced a decline. 1734 moved the seat of the district of Ansiães to nearby Carrazede. According to the merger of the county town of the present name came into being.
Management
Circle
Carrazeda de Ansiães is the seat of a district of the same ( concelho ). June 30, 2011 had the circle 6322 inhabitants in an area of 279.2 km ².
The neighboring districts are ( clockwise beginning in the north): Mirandela, Vila Flor, Torre de Moncorvo, Vila Nova de Foz Côa, São João da Pesqueira, Alijó and Murça.
The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) lying in circle Carrazeda de Ansiães:
- Amedo
- Beira Grande
- Belver
- Carrazeda de Ansiães
- Castanheiro
- Fonte Longa
- Lavandeira
- Linhares
- Marzagão
- Mogo de Malta
- Parambos
- Pereiros
- Pinhal do Norte
- Pombal
- Ribalonga
- Seixo de Ansiães
- Selores
- Vilarinho da Castanheira
- Zedes
Demographics
Local holiday
- Last Friday in August
Sons and daughters of the town
- Lopo Vaz de Sampaio (1480-1534), Military, 1526-29 Governor of Portuguese India
- António Luís de Freitas (1855-1926), lawyer, Republican politicians
- João José de Freitas (1873-1915), lawyer, Republican politicians
- Manuel Múrias (1900-1960), author and journalist, politician of the Estado Novo regime
- Altino Pinto de Magalhães (* 1922), General, Politicians in the Azores
- Eurico Augusto Cebolo ( b. 1938 ), composer, musician and writer
- Edite Estrela ( * 1949 ), socialist politician