Alenquer (pron. IPA: /ɐlẽ'kɛɾ/) is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 304.2 km² and a total population of 42,932 inhabitants. A modern coat of arms is derived from the medi val practice of painting designs onto the shield and outer clothing of knights to enable them to be identified in battle, and later in tournaments. ... Districts There are 18 Districts (distritos, singular - distrito) in mainland Portugal: note: Territorial division in Portugal is currently in flux, because of planned decentralization. ... Region can be used to mean either: any more or less well-defined geographical area of a country or continent, defined by geography, culture or history in political geography, an administrative subdivision of a country or of the European Union. ... Lisbon (Lisboa in Portuguese) is a district of Portugal. ... A mayor (from the Latin maÄ«or, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... Political parties in Portugal lists political parties in Portugal. ... The Socialist Party ( Portuguese: Partido Socialista) is a political party of Portugal. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ... Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... A freguesia is a secondary local administrative unit in Portugal and the former Portuguese overseas province of Macao. ... This article is about longitude and latitude; see also UTM coordinate system Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (vertically) and longitude (horizontally); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which... For other meanings see Ascension (disambiguation) The Ascension is one of the great feasts in the Christian liturgical calendar, and commemorates the bodily Ascension of Jesus into Heaven forty days after his resurrection from the dead. ... Pronunciation refers to: the way a word or a language is usually spoken; the manner in which someone utters a word. ... IPA may refer to: The International Phonetic Alphabet or India Pale Ale ... A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ...
The municipality is composed of 16 parishes, and is located in the District of Lisbon. Lisbon (Lisboa in Portuguese) is a district of Portugal. ...
The present Mayor is Álvaro Joaquim Gomes Pedro, elected by the Socialist Party. The Socialist Party ( Portuguese: Partido Socialista) is a political party of Portugal. ...
It was the birthplace of the navigator and pilot Pero de Alenquer who was with Bartolomeu Dias when he discovered the Cape of Good Hope and with Vasco da Gama on his expedition to discover the sea route to India.
His exploits were vividly described in the writings of the diplomat and chronicler of Manuel I, Daimao de Góis (1507-71), scion of a noble Alenquer family.
Alenquer's particular charm lies in its setting, with even the simplest of its houses clinging picturesquely to the slopes of the hillside on which it stands.
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