Tancos is a Portuguese ''

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 over ...

'' ("civil parish"), located in the municipality of Vila Nova da Barquinha. The population in 2011 was 243,Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE)
Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal in an area of 2.04 km².Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país
/ref> Tancos parish is the location of an important military area (Polígono de Tancos) that includes the Tancos Military Air Field, the

Parachute Troops School The Regimento de Paraquedistas (formerly: Escola de Tropas Pára-Quedistas - Parachute Troops School), based in Tancos, Portugal, is a unit of the Portuguese Army and serves as the instruction center for recruitment and training of the Portugu ...

and a military engineering unit.

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Freguesias of Vila Nova da Barquinha {{Santarém-geo-stub