Escurquela
Sign in to saveEscurquela is a small town in the north of Portugal. Located in the municipality of Sernancelhe, Viseu district, with a population of 138 (2011) is small hamlet located near the river Távora downstream of the Barragem do Vilar reservoir.
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- Escurquela
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- Location of Escurquela
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- Escurquela, Portuguese derivative from Escurqnella
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- Location of the civil parish of Escurquela in Sernancelhe municipality
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- left
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- Portugal
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- NUTS II Region
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- Centro
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- Douro
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- Viseu
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Escurquela is a small town in the north of Portugal. Located in the municipality of Sernancelhe, Viseu district, with a population of 138 (2011) is small hamlet located near the river Távora downstream of the Barragem do Vilar reservoir.
== Etymology == The name of Escurquela derives from the fact that it was a place of sentinel (esculca in Pre-Portuguese) to the castle of Sernancelhe. In 1767 already had the phonetic name of Escurquela, but written differently: "Escurquella". Escurquella or Escurquela, as is written today, comes from the term Esculqnella. Esculqunella is a diminutive of esculca (that signifies a place of sentinel).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Escurquela” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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