Vinhais
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Vinhais is a small town ( Vila ) and a circle ( concelho ) in Portugal with 2336 inhabitants (as at 30 June 2011). The place name derives from a traditionally significant activity in the district, the wine.
History
Archaeological finds and excavations indicate a prehistoric settlement of the district, such as the Castro Ciradelha or the excavation of the Iron Age settlement Castrilhão. The present town was first officially mentioned in the 12th century. 1253 gave him king D.Afonso III. its first town charter ( Foral ), which was renewed by King Manuel I in 1512.
As in 1384, the entitled to inherit the kingdom of Castile, despite the Portuguese Revolution of 1383 to collect the neighboring country sought Vinhais hoisted the flag of Castile and refused the neuproklamierten Portuguese King John I. allegiance.
After the proclamation of the Portuguese Republic in 1910 Paiva Couceiro Vinhais 1911 occupied temporarily, in the course of his anti-republican coup attempts.
Management
Circle
The following municipalities ( Freguesias ) lying in circle Vinhais:
Vinhais is the seat of an eponymous district, which borders to the north with Spain. The neighboring districts are (clockwise starting from the north ): Bragança, Macedo de Cavaleiros, Mirandela, Valpaços and Chaves.
Demographics
Sons and daughters of Vinhais
- Manuel Pinto de Morais Bacelar (1741-1816), noble general, opponents of Massena in the Napoleonic Wars in the Iberian Peninsula
- Henrique João de Barahona Fernandes (1907-1992), Rector of the University of Lisbon and high school teachers, psychiatric physician and author
- Alfredo Margarido (1928-2010), writer, painter and high school teachers
- Jorge Lima Barreto (1949-2011), musicologist and experimental musicians (including with Telectu )
- Armando Vara (born 1954 ), bank managers and politicians, former Youth and Sports Minister
- Carlos Magno (* 1955), journalist, co-founder of the TSF radio station