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Couto De Esteves
Couto de Esteves is a ''freguesia'' in Sever do Vouga, 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, ..., Portugal. The population in 2011 was 890, in an area of 16.42 km2. The '' Dólmen da Arca da Cerqueira'' is located in the ''freguesia''. References Freguesias of Sever do Vouga {{Aveiro-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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!!%! ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sever Do Vouga
Sever do Vouga () is a town and a municipality in the District of Aveiro in Portugal The population in 2011 was 12,356, in an area of 129.88 km2. It had 11,734 eligible voters (2013). The municipality is a center of metalworking industry. The municipality is included in the Região de Aveiro. The present Mayor is António José Martins Coutinho, elected by the Socialist Party. The municipal holiday is the September 21. Demographics Parishes Administratively, the municipality is divided into 7 civil parishes ('' freguesias''): * Cedrim e Paradela * Couto de Esteves * Pessegueiro do Vouga * Rocas do Vouga * Sever do Vouga * Silva Escura e Dornelas * Talhadas Famous people * Martin Silva (born 1952 in Sever do Vouga) politician and radio personality in Toronto, Ontario, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northwar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freguesia
(), usually translated as "parish" or "civil parish", is the third-level administrative subdivision of Portugal, as defined by the 1976 Constitution. It is also the designation for local government jurisdictions in the former Portuguese overseas territories of Cape Verde and Macau (until 2001). In the past, it was also an administrative division of the other Portuguese overseas territories. The civil parishes and communities in England and Wales and in the Spanish autonomous communities of Galicia and Asturias is similar to a in Portugal. The average land area of a Portuguese parish is about and an average population of about 3,386 people. The largest parish by area is Alcácer do Sal (Santa Maria do Castelo e Santiago) e Santa Susana, with a land area of , and the smallest parish by area is São Bartolomeu (Borba), with a land area of . The most populous parish is Algueirão - Mem Martins, with a population of 68,649 people and the least populous is Mosteiro, with a popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolmen
A dolmen, () or portal tomb, is a type of single-chamber Megalith#Tombs, megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table". Most date from the Late Neolithic period (40003000 BCE) and were sometimes covered with earth or smaller stones to form a tumulus (burial mound). Small pad-stones may be wedged between the cap and supporting stones to achieve a level appearance. In many instances, the covering has eroded away, leaving only the stone "skeleton". In Sumba (Indonesia), dolmens are still commonly built (about 100 dolmens each year) for collective graves according to lineage. The traditional village of Wainyapu, Sumba, Wainyapu has some 1,400 dolmens. Etymology Celtic or French The word ''dolmen'' entered archaeology when Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne used it to describe megalithic tombs in his (1796) using the spelling ''dolmin'' (the current spelling was introduced about a decade later and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
