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Charneca, Lisbon

former civil parish in Portugal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 9, 2024
Entity authorityQ1067627 ↗
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Charneca or Charneca do Lumiar (English: Lumiar heathland), was a Portuguese parish (freguesia) in the municipality of Lisbon. It was created in 1585. Between 1852 and 1886 this parish was part of the former municipality of Olivais. With the 2012 Administrative Reform, the parish merged with the Ameixoeira parish into a new one named Santa Clara.

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“Charneca, Lisbon” enters the record as former civil parish in Portugal. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Charneca, Lisbon and former can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Charneca, Lisbon” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.