Castrelos
Castrelos e Carrazedo is a civil parish in the municipality of Bragança Municipality, Bragança, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Castrelos and Carrazedo. The population in 2011 was 241,Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE)
Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal in an area of 50.53 km².

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Bragança, Portugal
Bragança (; mwl, Bergáncia), also known in English as Braganza (, also ), is a city and municipality in north-eastern Portugal, capital of the district of Bragança, in the Terras de Trás-os-Montes subregion of Portugal. The population in 2011 was 35,341, in an area of 1173.57 km². History Archeological evidence permits a determination of human settlement in this region to the Paleolithic. During the Neolithic there was a growth of productive human settlements which concentrated on planting and domestication of animals, with a nascent religion. There are many vestiges of these ancient communities, including ceramics, agricultural implements, weights, arrowheads and modest jewelry, all carved from rock. Many of these artifacts were found in funerary mounds, such as the tumulus of Donai (mostly destroyed). There are many signs of megalithic constructions dotted throughout the region. It is believed that the larger prehistoric communities developed in Terra Fria, probabl ...
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