Custóias

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Custóias is a former municipality in northern Portugal. 1964 104 people were killed in the railway accident Custóias.

History

Antas and other finds indicate a prehistoric settlement. Here were fortified villages of the Castro culture until the area was in the 1st century BC, part of the Roman Empire. After the invasion of the Suevi in the 5th century AD, the area became part of the Western Goth. From the time until the Arab conquest from 717 and the subsequent Reconquista little is known about the area. For the first time Custóias is mentioned in documents of the 10th century, when Costoyas or Custodias. A monastery was here founded in 1045 handed over to the Hospitallers 1122-1128 by Theresa of León. In the royal surveys 1258 Santiago de Custóias as an independent municipality in the district ( Couto ) Leca da Ordem do Hospital performed.

Probably spent before Miguelistenkrieg the 7,500 -strong liberal army of the king D. Pedro after his landing at Porto Pampelido 1832 in his first night here. It was surrounded here by absolutist troops, and some skirmishes in the area contributed to. After the victory of the Liberals were a few administrative reforms which are Custóias 1836 the circle Bouças, today Matosinhos affiliated. The changes in the traditionally agricultural community Custóias took thereafter, especially after the arrival of the railway in 1875. The industrial development took in Custóias as throughout the region since then significant upswing. Today Custóias is counted to the extended Greater Oporto.

The town was established on 1 July 2003 Vila ( dt: Small Town ) levied.

In the course of administrative reform in Portugal, the municipality Custóias was in 2013 merged with the municipalities of Leca do Balio and Guifões to the new church União de Freguesias Custóias, Leca do Balio e Guifões.

Management

The formerly independent municipality Custóias belongs since 2013 to the newly created municipality of the União de Freguesias Custóias, Leca do Balio e Guifões in a circle ( concelho ) of Matosinhos, Porto district. The former municipality has an area of ​​6 km ² and has 18,702 inhabitants (as of 30 June 2011).

The following villages are in the community Custóias:

  • Avilhó
  • Bouções
  • Caite
  • Carvalhas
  • Cête
  • Corgo
  • Cruz
  • Custóias
  • Detrás the Torres
  • Esposade de Cima
  • Esposade do Fundo
  • Estrada
  • Fonte do Cuco
  • Fonte
  • Fonte Velha
  • Fornilho
  • Golfeiro
  • Gondivinho
  • Igreja
  • Unhar
  • Maciel
  • Matalto
  • Minhoteira
  • Monte Crasto
  • Padrão because Légua
  • Pedras
  • Pias
  • Pinguela
  • Redolho
  • Santiago
  • São Gens
  • Souto
Grande Porto Subregion Arab people Liberal Wars Freguesia (Portugal) Perafita, Matosinhos Senhora da Hora
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