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Vendas Novas (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈvẽdɐʒ ˈnɔvɐʃ] ⓘ) is a municipality in the District of Évora in Portugal. The population in 2021 was 11,245, [1] in an area of 222.39 km 2. [2] The city has 10,625 inhabitants. [1] The present Mayor is Valentino Salgado Cunha, elected by the Socialist Party. [3]
The Portuguese Wikipedia (Portuguese: Wikipédia em português) is the Portuguese-language edition of Wikipedia (written Wikipédia, in Portuguese), the free encyclopedia. It was started on 11 May 2001. [2] Wikipedia is the nineteenth most accessed website in Brazil [3] and the tenth most accessed in Portugal. [4]
Portugal, [e] officially the Portuguese Republic, [f] is a country in the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe.Featuring the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it shares the longest uninterrupted border in the European Union; to the south and the west is the North Atlantic Ocean; and to the west and southwest lie the ...
Quinta is a traditional term for an estate, primarily used in Portugal and the Portuguese-speaking world, but the term has sometimes been borrowed in non-Portuguese speaking countries of Ibero-America.
Wikimedia Portugal, officially Associação Wikimedia Portugal is a Portuguese non profit association, recognized by the Wikimedia Foundation as a Wikimedia chapter operating in Portugal. It was established in 21 September 2009, in Guimarães.
Venda (/ ˈ v ɛ n d ə / VEN-də) or Tswetla, officially the Republic of Venda (Venda: Riphabuliki ya Venḓa; Afrikaans: Republiek van Venda), was a Bantustan in northern South Africa. It was fairly close to the South African border with Zimbabwe to the north, while, to the south and east, it shared a long border with another black homeland ...
By the early 1970s Portugal's fast economic growth with increasing consumption and purchase of new automobiles set the priority for improvements in transportation. Brisa – Autoestradas de Portugal was founded in 1972 and the state granted the company a 30-year concession to design, build, manage, and maintain a modern network of express ...
Photograph from the Penha Sanctuary picturing the city of Guimarães in 2013. Known as the "Birthplace of Portugal" or "The Cradle City", Guimarães played a crucial role in the foundation of the oldest nation state in the world, serving as it's first capital and the site of the Battle of São Mamede in 1128, where Portugal secured it's independence from the Kingdom of Galicia.