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Negreiros e Chavão

civil parish in Barcelos

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ15614873 ↗
Source-derived summary

Negreiros e Chavão is a civil parish in the municipality of Barcelos, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Negreiros and Chavão. The population in 2011 was 2,364, in an area of 6.96 km². The main monument of Chavão is the parish church, of Baroque style with a few Romanesque elements.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Negreiros e Chavão” as civil parish in Barcelos. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2011—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2013-01-28. The account is most persuasive where Negreiros, Chavão and civil can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as civil parish in Barcelos. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15614873. Authority coordinates are 41.431, -8.617. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2013 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Negreiros e Chavão” 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.