Beja (Portugal)

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Beja

Municipal coat of arms

Subdivisions of Portugal>Location
- Region
- Subregion
- District or A.R.

Alentejo
Baixo Alentejo
Beja

Mayor
- List_of_political_parties_in_Portugal>Party

Francisco Santos
CDU

Area

1,147.1 km²

Population
- Total
- Density

34,970
31/km²

No. of freguesia>parishes

Coordinates

[38º02'N 7º53'W]

Municipal holiday

Ascension Day
date varies

Website: http://www.cm-beja.pt

Beja (pron. IPA ['bɛʒɐ]) is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 1,147.1 km² and a total population of 34,970 inhabitants.

The municipality is composed of 18 parishes, and is located in the district of Beja.

The present Mayor is Francisco Santos, elected by the Unitarian Democratic Coalition.

The municipal holiday is Ascension Day.

It also the capital of the District of Beja

History

Pax-Julia, was its latin name under Roman Empire rule, capital of the southernmost province of Lusitania.

After the barbarian invasions, it became a Visigoth city and bishopry - now with the name of Paca. In the beginning of the 8th century, it fell into Muslim rule, renamed Beja.

Successive attempts of conquest and reconquer for the Christian kings, gradually reduced it into rubbles, falling definitively in Portuguese ownership from 1234. Only with D. Manuel I in 1521 it reached again the status of city, and to head of diocese in 1770, more than a thousand years after the fall of the Visigoth city.

Parishes

Albernoa
Baleizão
Beja (Salvador)
Beja (Santa Maria da Feira)
Beja (Santiago Maior)
Beja (São João Baptista)
Beringel
Cabeça Gorda
Mombeja
Nossa Senhora das Neves
Quintos
Salvada
Santa Clara de Louredo
Santa Vitória
São Brissos
São Matias
Trigaches
Trindade

External links

[Town Hall official website]

[Photos from Beja]

Municipalities of the District of Beja
Aljustrel \| Almodôvar \| Alvito \| Barrancos \| Beja \| Castro Verde \| Cuba \| Ferreira do Alentejo \| Mértola \| Moura \| Odemira \| Ourique \| Serpa \| Vidigueira

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