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Oliveira do Bairro
Municipality in Centro, Portugal From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Oliveira do Bairro (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɔliˈvɐjɾɐ ðu ˈβajʁu] ⓘ) is a town and a municipality in the district of Aveiro in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 47,729,[1] in an area of 335.27 km2.[2] It had 16,994 eligible voters in 2006. The town itself had a population of 3,077 in 2001.[3]
The municipality is in the Bairrada area. The present Mayor is Duarte Novo. The municipal holiday is Ascension Day.
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Demographics
Parishes
Administratively, the municipality is divided into 4 civil parishes (freguesias):[4]
- Bustos, Troviscal e Mamarrosa
- Oiã
- Oliveira do Bairro
- Palhaça
Cultural institutions
- União Filarmónica do Troviscal, Troviscal - Aveiro, conducted by André Granjo
Twinning cities
Oliveira do Bairro is twinned with two cities:
Benguela, Angola and [citation needed]
Lamballe, France
Notable people
- Ilda Figueiredo (born 1948 in Troviscal, Oliveira do Bairro) a Portuguese politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Portuguese Communist Party
- João Tomás (born 1975) a Portuguese retired footballer with 378 club caps and 4 for Portugal
References
External links
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