Marvão
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Marvão, officially the Very Noble and Ever Loyal Town of Marvão, is a municipality in Portalegre District in Portugal. The population in 2020 was 2,972 (and dropping at a rate of around one inhabitant per week), in an area of 154.90 km2. The present Mayor is Luís Vitorino, elected by the Social Democratic Party. The municipal holiday is September 8.
Key facts
- Portuguese subdivision.type
- municipality
- Portuguese subdivision.name
- Marvão
- Portuguese subdivision.official_name
- Very Noble and Ever Loyal Town of Marvão
- Portuguese subdivision.image_flag
- Pt-mrv1.png
- Portuguese subdivision.flag_border
- no
- Portuguese subdivision.image_shield
- MRV.png
- Portuguese subdivision.image_skyline
- Marvão 27.jpg
- Portuguese subdivision.image_caption
- Marvão as seen from its castle
- Portuguese subdivision.map_caption
- Interactive map of Marvão
- Portuguese subdivision.region
- Alentejo
- Portuguese subdivision.CIM
- Alto Alentejo
- Portuguese subdivision.district
- Portalegre
- Portuguese subdivision.parishes
- 4
- Portuguese subdivision.leader_name
- Luís Vitorino
- Portuguese subdivision.area_total_km2
- 154.90
- Portuguese subdivision.population_total
- 2970
- Portuguese subdivision.population_as_of
- 2020
- Portuguese subdivision.holiday
- September 8
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 3512
- Area
- 154.9
- Official website
- www.cm-marvao.pt
- Image
- CastillodeMarvao.jpg
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- Commons category
- Marvão
- postal code
- 7300
- P8168
- Admiralty Mountains
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +351-245-909-130
- contact page URL
- www.cm-marvao.pt/contactos
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22 sectionsContents
- Parishes
- History
- Prehistory
- Pre-Roman era: Lusitani and Celtici
- The Roman era: Ammaia
- The post-Roman era: decline of Ammaia, Alans, Suevi and the Visigoths
- The Islamic era: invasion, the Ibn Marwán rebellion, the Badajoz taifa, Christian reconquest
- Invasion: Land of the Berbers and Western Thugūr
- Ibn Marwán: Marvão's role as stronghold for the Banu Marwan wilāya
- Marvão under the Cordoban Caliphate
- Marvão under the Badajoz taifa and the Aftasids
- The final generations of Islamic rule in Marvão: Almoravids, Almohads, reconquest
- The Kingdom of Portugal, the plantation of settlers, Templars and Hospitallers
- Marvão´s castle: an archetype of medieval castle-building
- Dom Dinis (King Denis) and Afonso IV
- 18th Century
- Demographics
- Notable people
- Misc.
- Notes
- References
- External links
Marvão, officially the Very Noble and Ever Loyal Town of Marvão, is a municipality in Portalegre District in Portugal. The population in 2020 was 2,972 (and dropping at a rate of around one inhabitant per week), in an area of 154.90 km2. The present Mayor is Luís Vitorino, elected by the Social Democratic Party. The municipal holiday is September 8.
Perched on a quartzite crag of the Serra de São Mamede, Marvão's name is derived from an 8th-century Muwallad rebel, named Ibn Marwan. Ibn Marwan, who constructed the Castle of Marvão - likely on the site of an earlier Roman watchtower - as a power base when establishing an independent statelet ("emirate", duchy) - covering much of modern-day Portugal - during the Emirate of Cordoba (884-931 CE). The castle and walled village were further fortified through the centuries, notably under Sancho II of Portugal (13th century) and Denis of Portugal.
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