Murça Municipality

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Murça is a small town ( Vila ) and the seat of a district of the same ( concelho ) in northern Portugal. The place is known for its prehistoric stone figure of a wild boar, the Porca de Murça. In the district municipality Candedo the Caldas de Carlão is.

History

Celtiberians lived here. A stone boar representation Porca de Murça (Portuguese for the sow of Murça ) was probably an object of veneration by the primitive people, and is now the symbol of the city. From the 2nd century BC, the Romans conquered the region. A well- preserved bridge and some parts of a Roman road have been preserved here.

In the course of from 711 made ​​conquest by the Arabs of the present town was probably founded by Ibn Musa, the governor of Al -Andalus. The name goes back to him. During the Reconquista Murça was Portuguese. King D.Sancho II gave the place in 1224 first town rights.

1512 King renewed D.Manuel I. municipal rights Murças.

Management

Circle

Murça is the seat of an eponymous district ( concelho ) in the district of Vila Real. June 30, 2011 had the circle 5954 inhabitants in an area of 189.4 km ².

The neighboring districts are (clockwise starting from the north ): Valpaços, Mirandela, Carrazeda de Ansiães, Alijó and Vila Pouca de Aguiar.

The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) lying in circle Murça:

  • Candedo
  • Carva
  • Fiolhoso
  • Jou
  • Murça
  • Noura
  • Palheiros
  • Valongo de Milhais
  • Candedo

Demographics

Local holiday

  • May 8

Twinning

  • France France La Couture in the Pas -de- Calais

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Gaspar Cardoso de Sequeira, a mathematician of the 17th century
  • Inácio do Nascimento de Morais Cardoso (1811-1883), Roman Catholic cardinal and eleventh Patriarch of Lisbon
  • Soldado milhoes (actually Aníbal Augusto Milhais, 1895-1970 ), Portuguese war hero in World War I
  • António Borges Coelho ( born 1928 ), theater scholar, historian and poet
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