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Mogadouro Village / Vila do Mogadouro

English

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogadouro

 

Mogadouro is a Portuguese village, in the district of Bragança, North and sub-region of Alto Trás-os-Montes, with about 3 600 inhabitants.

It is the seat of a municipality with 757.98 kilometers ² and 10 583 inhabitants (2006) [1] divided into 28 parishes. It is bordered to the north by the municipalities of Bragança and Vimioso northeast of Miranda do Douro, southeast Spain, south of Miranda do Cinta and west by Alfandega da Fé

The county received its first charter of King Afonso III on December 27, 1272.

In this region, in addition to Portuguese, speaks his own language: the language Mirandese

The history of the municipality of Mogadouro accompanied always been the history of Portugal and identify with it from the prehistory to the present day. There is, for now, news items about the passage of man in these lands in the Paleolithic Period.

The Mesolithic period is documented by many insculturas rock scattered across various places in the county, but the most important documents are the paintings of "Fraga's song," still kept on the premises of quartz red fort Castle Penas and figures' Fraga of the Devil 'by the riverside of the town of Vila dos Sinos. The two sets are schematic pictures of the Levantine features reddish color and the places where.

 

Português

pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogadouro

 

Mogadouro é uma vila portuguesa, pertencente ao Distrito de Bragança, Região Norte e subregião do Alto Trás-os-Montes, com cerca de 3 600 habitantes.

É sede de um município com 757,98 km² de área e 10 583 habitantes (2006), subdividido em 28 freguesias. O município é limitado a norte pelos municípios de Macedo de Cavaleiros e de Vimioso, a nordeste por Miranda do Douro, a sueste pela Espanha, a sul por Freixo de Espada à Cinta e por Torre de Moncorvo e a oeste por Alfândega da Fé.

O concelho recebeu foral de D. Afonso III em 27 de Dezembro de 1272.

Nesta região, além do português, fala-se sua própria língua: a língua mirandesa.

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