Batalha, Portugal

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Batalha Town
Municipality
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Coordinates: 39°39′29″N8°49′28″W / 39.65806°N 8.82444°W / 39.65806; -8.82444
CountryFlag of Portugal.svg  Portugal
Region Centro
Intermunic. comm. Região de Leiria
District Leiria
Parishes 4
Area
 • Total
103.42 km2 (39.93 sq mi)
Population
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15,805
 • Density150/km2 (400/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+00:00 (WET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+01:00 (WEST)
Website www.cm-batalha.pt

Batalha (Portuguese pronunciation: [bɐˈtaʎɐ] ⓘ ), officially Batalha Town (Portuguese : Vila da Batalha), is a town and a municipality in historical Beira Litoral province, and Leiria district in the Centro of Portugal. The town's name means "battle". The municipality population in 2011 was 15,805, [1] in an area of 103.42 km2 (39.93 sq mi). [2] The town proper has around 8,548 inhabitants in an area of 28.42 km2 (10.97 sq mi). [3] The municipality is limited to the North and West by the municipality of Leiria, to the East by Ourém, to the Southeast by Alcanena and to the Southwest by Porto de Mós.

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The town was founded by King D. João I of Portugal, jointly with the Monastery of Santa Maria da Vitória na Batalha (a World Heritage Site), to pay homage to the Portuguese victory at the Battle of Aljubarrota (14 August 1385) that put an end to the 1383–1385 Crisis.

History

Although there are countless traces throughout the region that allude to a human occupation since prehistoric times, passing through the Roman period and, successively, throughout history (it is believed that the Roman settlement of Collipo, originally of the Turduli people, established in São Sebastião do Freixo), Vila da Batalha owes its origin to the construction of the Santa Maria da Vitória Monastery. In fact, Batalha was born with the Avis Dynasty and the consolidation of Independence in 1385. [4]

The administrative figure of the parishes is only drawn and defined throughout the second half of the 19th century, with Liberalism, so that on 14 September 1512, when the Prior-Major of Santa Cruz de Coimbra, D. Pedro Vaz Gavião, creates the parish of Batalha, it is evidently the seat that, however, delimits and is the first form of future civil parish. [4]

Demography

Population of the municipality of Batalha (1801–2011)
1801184919001930196019811991200120042011
251024457107963413 81112 58813 32915 00215 54215 805

Monuments

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Details of Gothic architecture in the Monastery of Batalha
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Statue of Nuno Álvares Pereira, next to Batalha Monastery

Natural heritage

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Grutas da Moeda

Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 4 civil parishes ( freguesias ): [5]

International relations

Batalha is twinned with:

Notable people

References

  1. ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estatística
  2. ↑ "Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país". Archived from the original on 5 November 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  3. ↑ "Dados Estatísticos". Freguesia de Batalha (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  4. 1 2 "História". Freguesia de Batalha (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  5. ↑ Diário da República. "Law nr. 11-A/2013, page 552 24" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  6. ↑ "Geminações de Cidades e Vilas – Batalha". www.anmp.pt. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  7. ↑ "Joinville-le-Pont – Portal do Município da Batalha". cm-batalha.pt. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
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