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Beja is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 1139.0 km² and a total population of 34,977 inhabitants. Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links BJA.png Crest of Beja municipality (Portugal) Author: Sérgio Horta The author has agreed to usage of his works under the GNU-FDL, as long as he is quoted as the source: Caro Senhor, Manuel Anastácio File links The...
Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links BJA.png Crest of Beja municipality (Portugal) Author: Sérgio Horta The author has agreed to usage of his works under the GNU-FDL, as long as he is quoted as the source: Caro Senhor, Manuel Anastácio File links The...
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 18 parishes, and is located in the district of Beja. The District of Beja is a district in the South Portugal, the district Capital is Beja. ...
The present Mayor is José Carreira Marques (Communist) and the President of the Municipal Assembly is Bernardo Barreto (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 Maundy Thursday. In the Christian calendar, Maundy Thursday is the Thursday before Easter. ...
It also the capital of the District of Beja Beja is a district of Portugal. ...
History Pax-Julia, was its latin name under Roman Empire rule, capital of the southernmost province of Lusitania. Roman province of Lusitania, 120 AD Lusitania, an ancient Roman province approximately including current Portugal and part of western current Spain (specifically the present autonomous community Extremadura), named after the Lusitani or Lusitanian people. ...
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 Dores
- Quintos
- Salvada
- Santa Clara de Louredo
- Santa Vitória
- São Brissos
- São Matias
- Trigaches
- Trindade
External links - Town Hall official website
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