Esgueira
Sign in to saveEsgueira is an urban civil parish in the municipality (concelho) of Aveiro, in continental Portugal. The population in 2011 was 13,431, in an area of .
Key facts
- Portuguese subdivision.type
- parish
- Portuguese subdivision.official_name
- Esgueira
- Portuguese subdivision.image_shield
- AVR-esgueira.png
- Portuguese subdivision.region
- Centro
- Portuguese subdivision.CIM
- Região de Aveiro
- Portuguese subdivision.district
- Aveiro
- Portuguese subdivision.municipality
- Aveiro
- Portuguese subdivision.area_total
- 17.15
- Portuguese subdivision.population_as_of
- 2011
- Portuguese subdivision.population_total
- 13,431
- Portuguese subdivision.area_code
- 234
- Portuguese subdivision.postal_code
- 3800
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- freguesia of Portugal
- Official name
- Esgueira
- Country
- Portugal
- Located in
- Aveiro
- Population
- 13431
- Area
- 17.15
- Elevation
- 40
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Igreja Matriz de Esgueira. Fachada Principal.JPG
- Dialing code
- 234
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- native label
- Esgueira
- postal code
- 3800
- Commons category
- Esgueira
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Geography
- Architecture
- Civic
- Religious
- References
Esgueira is an urban civil parish in the municipality (concelho) of Aveiro, in continental Portugal. The population in 2011 was 13,431, in an area of .
==History== thumb|170px|left|The pillory that marked Esgueiras short history as municipal seat thumb|170px|left|The front facade of the Baroque era parochial Church of Santo André The history of Esgueira remotes to the early medieval: the first document referring to the region dates to 1050. Specifically, the texts refer to the maritime waters of Esgueira. Outeiro was the locality where the first inhabitants settled.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Esgueira” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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