Favaios
Sign in to saveFavaios () is a civil parish of the municipality of Alijó, in northern Portugal. The population in 2011 was 1,064, in an area of 21.45 km2. The region is known for its wines, namely, the moscatels like Moscatel de Favaios.
Key facts
- Portuguese subdivision.type
- parish
- Portuguese subdivision.official_name
- Favaios
- Portuguese subdivision.image_skyline
- Favaios.jpg
- Portuguese subdivision.region
- Norte
- Portuguese subdivision.CIM
- Douro
- Portuguese subdivision.district
- Vila Real
- Portuguese subdivision.municipality
- Alijó
- Portuguese subdivision.elevation
- 498
- Portuguese subdivision.area_total
- 21.45
- Portuguese subdivision.population_as_of
- 2011
- Portuguese subdivision.population_total
- 1064
- Portuguese subdivision.area_code
- 259
- Portuguese subdivision.postal_code
- 5070
- Portuguese subdivision.website
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110816182334/http://freguesiadefavaios.com/
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Wikidata facts
- Area
- 21.45
- Official website
- freguesiadefavaios.com
- Image
- Favaios.jpg
- Dialing code
- 259
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- Favaios
- postal code
- 5070
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Favaios () is a civil parish of the municipality of Alijó, in northern Portugal. The population in 2011 was 1,064, in an area of 21.45 km2. The region is known for its wines, namely, the moscatels like Moscatel de Favaios.
==History== Favaios was occupied by Roman legions between 218 BCE and 201 BCE, who took it from the tribes of Lusitanians and Hispanic clans. The founders came from the families and relations of the Flavian dynasty, of Imperial Rome, who rose to prominence after Emperor Titus Flavius Caesar Vespasianus Augustus. The parish's name is derived from Flávios, a corruption of the original name of this leader, Flavius . Roman Flávios belonged to a vast territory known as Panoias (not to be confused with modern-day Panoias which is a small community in the municipality of Braga). Ancient Panoias extended from the river Marão to the Tua River, and from the Douro River to the current site of Murça.
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