Alcanede

Alcanede
Parish

The village of Alcanede with the Castle of Alcanede on the hilltop in the background

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Alcanede
Coordinates: 39°24′50″N 8°49′19″W / 39.414°N 8.822°W / 39.414; -8.822Coordinates: 39°24′50″N 8°49′19″W / 39.414°N 8.822°W / 39.414; -8.822
Country Portugal
Region Ribatejo
Subregion Lezíria do Tejo
Intermunic. comm. Lezíria do Tejo
District Santarém
Municipality Santarém
Area
  Total 105.84 km2 (40.87 sq mi)
Elevation 93 m (305 ft)
Population (2011)
  Total 4,547
  Density 43/km2 (110/sq mi)
Postal code 2025
Area code 243
Patron Nossa Senhora da Purificação

Alcanede is a civil parish in the municipality of Santarém, in the district of the same name, of the Ribatejo. The population in 2011 was 4,547,[1] in an area of 105.84 km².[2] Between 1163 and 1855 it was a municipal seat (with a population of 6408 inhabitants in 1801).

History

Entrance to the Castle of Alcanede

Between 1163 and 1855, with a population around 6408 (1801), it was the municipal seat of a municipality consisting of Louriceira, Malhou, Alcobertas, Fráguas, Abrã, Alcanede and Arneiro das Milhariças.

During the Roman occupation, the region of Alcanede constituted the western limit of the Santarém colonia; it was a secondary Roman transit roadway.

Afonso Henriques donated the village of Alcanede to Gonçalo Mendes de Sousa, while the ecclesiastical rights were transferred to the Monastery of Coimbra,[3] in 1163, resulting in the construction of a religious temple that records referred to as Santa Maria de Alcanede.[4] The first prior was Father Fernão Anes (1299).[4]

In 1179, the castle's garrison assisted Fuas Roupinho to defeat Moorish incursions and attacks on the Castle of Porto de Mós, and in 1187 King Sancho I donated the castle in Alcanede to the militia in Évora (the future Order of Aviz).[3]

King Ferdinand had the castle remodelled in 1370, at the same time while the men of Alcanede participated in the public works in the Castle of Santarém.[5] In 1372, Vasco Fernandes de Camões (descendent of Luís de Camões) was appointed the Alcaide-mor of the Castle of Alcanede, just as the garrison allied itself with the Master of Aviz (per the chronicler Fernão Lopes).

In 1514, King Manuel provided a regal charter (Portuguese: foral). During the accession crisis, the municipality supported Philip II of Spain, yet for a while, António, Prior of Crato, sought refuge in Alcanede, on his escape from the country. In July 1679, Father António Vieira stayed in Alcanede, as revealed from his correspondence with diplomat Duarte Ribeiro de Macedo.

On 16 July 1719, the local population revolted against taxes imposed by the Order of Aviz, going as far as marching to Lisbon and receiving a favourable hearing from King John V.

During the third French invasion, between November 1810 and March 1811, the main village is occupied and pillaged by French troops from Massena's 8th Corp.

After the 1820 Liberal revolution, the Municipal Chamber of Alcanede aligned itself with the new regime. During the Patuleia (1846) Alcanede and its region were sites of many confrontations between Cartistas and Setemberistas forces.

Geography

Alcanede is a parish of the district and municipality of Santarém, situated 26 kilometres from the regional capital. It is bordered by its former parishes: Gançaria, Abrã, Abitureiras and Tremês. The parish contains the localities Aldeia de Além, Aldeia da Ribeira, Alqueidão do Mato, Alqueidão do Rei, Bairro dos Murtais, Barreirinhas, Casais da Charneca, Casal de Além, Covão dos Porcos, Espinheira, Mata do Rei, Mosteiros, Murteira, Prado, Pé da Pedreira, Vale da Trave, Vale do Carro, Vale do Soupo, Valverde, Viegas and Xartinho.

Economy

The agricultural community, in addition to being supported by domestication of herd species, is involved in meat processing, along with the extraction of limestone, forestry and saw-milling, construction, bread-making and small commercial businesses.

Architecture

Civic

Military

Religious

References

Notes
  1. Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal
  2. Direção-Geral do Território
  3. 1 2 Archivo pittoresco (1835), p.206
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Coelho, Carlos; Coelho, Paulo. "Igreja Matriz" (in Portuguese). Alcanede, Portugal: alcanedefreguesia.com.
  5. J.G. Monteiro (1999), p.128
  6. 1 2 3 Coelho, Carlos; Coelho, Paulo. "Castelo" (in Portuguese). Alcanede, Portugal: alcanedefreguesia.com.
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