Avis is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 606.0 km² and a total population of 5,081 inhabitants. 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 8 parishes, and is located in the District of Portalegre. The District of Portalegre is located in the South of Portugal. ...
The present Mayor is Manuel Maria Libério Coelho (Communist) and the President of the Municipal Assembly is António Raimundo Bartolomeu (Communist). PCPs official symbol, featuring the hammer and sickle and the Portuguese national colors, red and green. ... PCPs official symbol, featuring the hammer and sickle and the Portuguese national colors, red and green. ...
The municipal holiday is Easter Monday. Easter Monday is a Christian holiday celebrated the next day after Easter Sunday. ...
Avis, 24km/15mi west of Fronteira, is now an unprepossessing little country town, but it has a famous history.
It first became important in 1211, when Afonso II moved here the military order known as the "Freires de Évora" (also the first order of knights in Europe) which had been formed by Afonso Henriques in 1147 as a defense against the Moors.
DINIZ (the Worker), the best-known and best-loved king of medieval Portugal.
With the Avis dynasty, Portugal entered on the greatest period of her history.
The king himself was an able and enlightened ruler, who enjoyed the aid of five outstanding sons, of whom Henry the Navigator (1394–1460) became the greatest figure in the history of the epoch-making discoveries of the 15th century (See 1400–1550).
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