Sertã
{{for-multi|the civil parish|Sertã (parish)|other uses|Serta (disambiguation){{!}}Serta}}
{{Infobox Portuguese subdivision
| type = municipality
| official_name = Sertã Town
| image_flag = Pt-srt1.png
| image_shield = SRT.png
| image_skyline = Pedrógão Grande - Sertã (52359337841).jpg
| image_caption =
| coordinates = {{coord|39.80|N|8.10|W|type:adm1st_region:PT_dim:100000|display=inline,title}}
| image_map = LocalSerta.svg
| region = Oeste e Vale do Tejo
| CIM = Médio Tejo
| district = Castelo Branco
| leader_party = PSD
| leader_name = José Farinha Nunes
| elevation_m = 250
| area_total_km2 = 446.73
| population_total = 15880
| population_as_of = 2011
| parishes = 10
| holiday = Birthday of Nuno Álvares Pereira, 24 June
| postal_code = 6100
| area_code = (+351) 274
| website = [http://www.cm-serta.pt/ Official website] {{in lang|pt}}
}}
Sertã ({{IPA|pt|sɨɾˈtɐ̃|-|Pt-pt Sertã FF.ogg}}), officially Sertã Town ({{langx|pt|Vila da Sertã}}), is a municipality in Castelo Branco District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 15,880,[http://www.ine.pt/xportal/xmain?xlang=en&xpid=INE&xpgid=ine_indicadores&indOcorrCod=0005889&contexto=pi&selTab=tab0 Instituto Nacional de Estatística] in an area of 446.73 km2.[http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/nuts_nomenclature/documents/PT-LAU.xls Eurostat]
The present mayor is José Farinha Nunes, elected by the PSD. The municipal holiday is the June 24.
class="wikitable"
! colspan="9" | Population of Sertã (1801 – 2011) |
bgcolor="#C0C0C0"
| align="center" | 1801 | align="center" | 1849 | align="center" | 1900 | align="center" | 1930 | align="center" | 1960 | align="center" | 1981 | align="center" | 1991 | align="center" | 2001 | align="center" | 2011 |
align="center" | 10235
| align="center" | 13456 | align="center" | 20380 | align="center" | 24057 | align="center" | 27997 | align="center" | 21503 | align="center" | 18199 | align="center" | 16720 | align="center" | 15880 |
Etymology
The town's name literally means "frying pan", but is near-certainly a phono-semantic matching of a pre-Roman toponym. This hasn't stopped the creation of all manner of folk etymological legends seeking to explain name of the town, the most famous of which is the so-called "Legend of Celinda", supposedly a Lusitanian woman who had been frying eggs while the settlement was under attack by Quintus Sertorius' forces and, upon learning of her husband's death, poured boiling hot cooking oil on the besiegers. This story has lent the town its name {{lang|la|Sartago Sternit Sartagine Hostes}} ({{lit|Sertã scatters its enemies with a {{lang|pt|sertã}}}}).
General information
Local sports club: Sertanense Futebol Clube (mainly devoted to soccer, playing (2004-2005) the 3rd Division Championship).
Local newspaper: A Comarca da Sertã (weekly)
Parishes
Administratively, the municipality is divided into 10 civil parishes (freguesias):{{cite web|title=Law nr. 11-A/2013, page 552 114|url=http://dre.pt/pdf1sdip/2013/01/01901/0000200147.pdf |accessdate=31 July 2014|author=Diário da República|author-link=Diário da República|language=Portuguese|format=pdf}}
:
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!Parish name |
Cabeçudo
|align="right"|957 |align="right"|10.39 |
Carvalhal
|align="right"|465 |align="right"|10.02 |
Castelo
|align="right"|1,046 |align="right"|24.57 |
Cernache do Bonjardim, Nesperal e Palhais
|align="right"|3,625 |align="right"|101.58 |
Cumeada e Marmeleiro
|align="right"|731 |align="right"|51.73 |
Ermida e Figueiredo
|align="right"|423 |align="right"|42.74 |
Pedrógão Pequeno
|align="right"|753 |align="right"|36.86 |
Sertã
|align="right"|6,196 |align="right"|80.95 |
Troviscal
|align="right"|864 |align="right"|53.37 |
Várzea dos Cavaleiros
|align="right"|820 |align="right"|34.51 |
Notable people
- Nuno Álvares Pereira (born 1360 in Cernache de Bonjardim - 1431) a Portuguese general, he became a mystic and was beatified by Pope Benedict XV, in 1918, and canonised by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009
- João Castel-Branco Goulão (born 1954 in Cernache do Bonjardim) a physician and the current national drug coordinator for Portugal
References
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{{Commons|Sertã}}
{{Municipalities of Castelo Branco}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Serta Municipality}}
Category:Populated places in Castelo Branco District
Category:Municipalities of Castelo Branco District
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