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Peso da Regua

location_on Vila Real District, Portugal
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About Peso da Regua

Peso da Regua is a municipality in northern Portugal, in the district of Vila Real. The population in 2011 was 17,131of which approximately 10,000 are in the metropolis of Regua, in an area of 94.86 km2. Peso da Regua changed into inhabited by means of Roman and barbarian invasions throughout the early a part of the settled history. Its call, as historians have advised, developed from a few places: first, the name Vila Reggula a Roman property that at one time existed near the ancient centre; others propose it originated from the phrase recua the ships that plied the waters alongside the Douro; or derived the word reguengo a designation for lands that have been attributed to the monarchy.

Peso da Regua may have its beginning within the phrase regra English: rule, alluding to the hereditary rights of descendents executed via forals. This concept is based totally at the donated of lands by using Counts Henrique and Hugo in 1093, which were transferred to Egas Moniz. It is probably that this rule gave beginning to the phrase Régoa, and later Rgua. In relation to the primary word, Peso, there are opinions on its origin: the primary, defends the it changed into derived from the region in which the weighing of products existed, or where taxes have been levied; or, secondly, that the word become probably used to define the located where animals were fed Portuguese: pensado, or Penso.

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