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Key facts
- Country
- Portugal
- Region
- Centro
- Intermunic comm
- Região de Leiria
- District
- Leiria
- Total
- 103.42 km (39.93 sq mi)
- Density
- 152.82/km (395.81/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+00:00 ( WET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+01:00 ( WEST )
- Website
- www .cm-batalha .pt
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Portugal
- Official name
- Batalha
- Country
- Portugal
- Located in
- Região de Leiria Subregion
- Contains
- Reguengo do Fetal
- Population
- 15805
- Area
- 103.42
- Elevation
- 172
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Shares border with
- Porto de Mós
- Official website
- www.cm-batalha.pt
- Image
- Mosteiro da Batalha (2).JPG
- Dialing code
- 244
Show 9 more facts
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- twinned administrative body
- Trujillo
- Commons gallery
- Mosteiro da Batalha
- topic's main category
- Category:Batalha
- postal code
- 2440
- native label
- Batalha
- Commons category
- Batalha
- public holiday
- patronal festival
- P8168
- Roberto Martínez
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Encyclopedic overview
Batalha ( Portuguese pronunciation: [bɐˈtaʎɐ] ), officially Town of Batalha (Portuguese: Vila da Batalha), is a town and a municipality in historical Beira Litoral province, and Leiria district in the Centro of Portugal. The town's name means "battle". The municipality population in 2011 was 15,805, in an area of 103.42 km (39.93 sq mi). The town proper has around 8,548 inhabitants in an area of 28.42 km (10.97 sq mi). The municipality is limited to the North and West by the municipality of Leiria, to the East by Ourém, to the Southeast by Alcanena and to the Southwest by Porto de Mós.
The town was founded by King D. João I of Portugal, jointly with the Monastery of Santa Maria da Vitória na Batalha (a World Heritage Site), to pay homage to the Portuguese victory at the Battle of Aljubarrota (14 August 1385) that put an end to the 1383–1385 Crisis.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Batalha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.