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Baleizão is a Portuguese freguesia ("civil parish") of the municipality of Beja. The population in 2011 was 902, in an area of 139.74 km2.

Key facts

Portuguese subdivision.type
parish
Portuguese subdivision.official_name
Baleizão
Portuguese subdivision.image_shield
BJA-baleizao.png
Portuguese subdivision.region
Alentejo
Portuguese subdivision.CIM
Baixo Alentejo
Portuguese subdivision.district
Beja
Portuguese subdivision.municipality
Beja
Portuguese subdivision.area_total
139.74
Portuguese subdivision.population_total
902
Portuguese subdivision.population_as_of
2011

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Baleizão is a Portuguese freguesia ("civil parish") of the municipality of Beja. The population in 2011 was 902, in an area of 139.74 km2.

The parish contains Monte do Olival ("Hill of the Olive Grove"), where Catarina Eufémia was murdered in 1954. She subsequently became a national icon of the resistance against the Estado Novo regime.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Baleizão” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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