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Calvão (Vagos)
Calvão is a parish in Vagos Municipality, Portugal. This village belongs to the Aveiro District near the sea coast, in the Centro Region of the country. The village is known to some people in parts of Minnesota as the Brainerd, Minnesota Brainerd ( ) is a city and the county seat of Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States. Its population was 14,395 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Brainerd straddles the Mississippi River several miles upstream from its confluen ... of Europe. The population in 2011 was 2,014, in an area of 14.84 km2. Notable residents * Guilherme Matos References External links Calvão at freguesiasdeportugal.com Administration Information about Calvão Freguesias of Vagos {{Aveiro-geo-stub ...
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Centro Region, Portugal
The Central Region (, ) or Central Portugal is one of the NUTS statistical regions of Portugal, statistical regions of Portugal. The cities with major administrative status inside this region are Coimbra, Aveiro, Portugal, Aveiro, Viseu, Leiria, Castelo Branco, Portugal, Castelo Branco and Guarda, Portugal, Guarda. It is one of the seven Regions of Portugal (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, NUTS II subdivisions). It is also one of the regions of Europe, as given by the European Union for statistical and Geography, geographical purposes. Its area totals . As of 2011, its population totalled 2,327,026 inhabitants, with a population density of 82 inhabitants per square kilometre. History Inhabited by the Lusitanians, an Proto-Indo-Europeans, Indo-European people living in the western Iberian Peninsula, the Roman Republic, Romans settled in the region and colonized it as a part of the Roman Province of ''Lusitania, Lusitânia''. The Roman town of Conímbriga, near Co ...
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Região De Aveiro
The Intermunicipal communities of Portugal, Comunidade Intermunicipal da Região de Aveiro (Intermunicipal Aveiro Region) is an administrative division in Portugal. It was created in October 2008, replacing the previously existing ''Greater Metropolitan Area of Aveiro''. Since January 2015, Região de Aveiro is also a NUTS3 subregion of Centro Region, Portugal, Centro Region, that covers the same area as the intermunicipal community.Adequação dos indicadores à nova organização territorial NUTS III / Entidades Intermunicipais
Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Portugal), Instituto Nacional de Estatística, 18 March 2015 The main city and seat of the intermunicipal community is Aveiro, Portugal, Aveiro. The po ...
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Aveiro District
Aveiro District (, ) is located in the central coastal region of Portugal. The capital of the district is the city of Aveiro, which also serves as the seat of Aveiro Municipality. Aveiro District is bordered by the Porto District to the north, the Viseu District to the east, the Coimbra District to the south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The 19 municipalities of Aveiro District are split between the '' Norte'' (Metropolitan Area of Porto) and the ''Centro'' (''Região de Aveiro'') subregions. Municipalities The district is composed of 19 municipalities A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...: All 19 municipalities is divided into 147 freguesias or parishes. Summary of votes and seats won 1976-2022 , - class="unsortable" !rowspan=2, Parties!!%!!S!!%!!S!!%! ...
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Vagos
Vagos () is a town and a municipality in Aveiro District, belonging to Centro Region of Portugal. The district capital, Aveiro, is its nearest large city. Its population in 2011 was 22,851 in an area of 164.92 km2, and it had 17,204 eligible voters. It is part of the intermunicipal community of Região de Aveiro. In Roman times, the municipality was called Vacus, and had both coastline and large sand dune valleys just east of its center. Increases in sedimentation and sand drifts leveled and lengthened these distances. According to António Gomes da Rocha Madail and other writers, there is tradition among the native population that they are descendants of the seafaring salt farmers of Phoenicia. Due to its fertile soils, agriculture plays a major role in the municipality's economy. Its green meadows create exceptional conditions for cattle breeding and milk production at a national level. The forest areas and vegetable production are other sources of prosperity for the muni ...
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Minnesota
Minnesota ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the south, and North Dakota and South Dakota to the west. It is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 12th-largest U.S. state in area and the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 22nd-most populous, with about 5.8 million residents. Minnesota is known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes"; it has 14,420 bodies of fresh water covering at least ten acres each. Roughly a third of the state is Forest cover by state and territory in the United States, forested. Much of the remainder is prairie and farmland. More than 60% of Minnesotans (about 3.71 million) live in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, known as the "Twin Cities", which is Minnesota's main Politics of Minnesota, political, Economy of Minnesota, economic, and C ...
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Brainerd, Minnesota
Brainerd ( ) is a city and the county seat of Crow Wing County, Minnesota, United States. Its population was 14,395 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Brainerd straddles the Mississippi River several miles upstream from its confluence with the Crow Wing River, having been founded as a site for a railroad crossing above the confluence. Brainerd is the principal city of the Brainerd, Minnesota micropolitan area, Brainerd Micropolitan Area, a United States micropolitan area, micropolitan area covering Cass County, Minnesota, Cass and Crow Wing County, Minnesota, Crow Wing counties and with a combined population of 96,189 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The city is well known for being the partial setting of the 1996 film ''Fargo (1996 film), Fargo''. History The area that is now Brainerd was formerly Ojibwe territory. Brainerd was first seen by European settlers on Christmas Day in 1805, when Zebulon Pike stopped there while searching for the Source (r ...
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Guilherme Matos
Guilherme Venâncio Matos (born 14 February 1994 in Calvão) is a Portuguese footballer who plays for JuveForce as a midfielder. Football career Matos played in five youth leagues: Covão do Lobo (2003—2005), Taboeira (2005—2006), Benfica (2006—2011), União Leiria (2011—2012), and Beira-Mar (2012—2013). While in youth football, he played on the national Portugal U16 team in 2009—2010 and on the national Portugal U18 team in 2011. Matos signed with Beira-Mar professionally 2013-2015 and made his professional debut in January 2014 in a 2013–14 Taça da Liga match against Braga, when he started and played the full game. Shortly after, he was loaned to Oliveira do Bairro Oliveira do Bairro () is a town and a municipality in the district of Aveiro in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 47,729, in an area of 335.27 km2. It had 16,994 eligible voters in 2006. The town itself had a population of 3,077 in 2001. ... for 2014 and to Gafanha for 2014—2015. H ...
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