Bragança - Bragança (English spelling)

Japanese: ブラガンサ - ぶらがんさ(英語表記)Bragança
Bragança - Bragança (English spelling)

It is the central city of the Tras os Montes i Alto Douro region in northeastern Portugal. It is located at an altitude of 660 meters in the Nogueira mountain range. It has a population of 19,885 (2001). It has pottery and textile industries, but is isolated from the surrounding areas and is small in scale. It was the castle of the Dukes of Bragança, who ruled Portugal from 1640 to 1910. The old town still retains the appearance of a medieval walled city surrounded by walls, with the citadel built in 1187 at its center.

[Yutaka Tanabe and Kyohei Shibata]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

ポルトガル北東部、トラズ・オズ・モンテス・イ・アルト・ドゥロ地方の中心都市。ノゲイラ山地の標高660メートルに位置する。人口1万9885(2001)。製陶業と繊維業があるが、周囲の地域から隔絶し、小規模である。1640年から1910年までポルトガルに君臨したブラガンサ公爵家の居城であった。旧市街は、1187年に建てられた城塞(じょうさい)を中心に、壁に囲まれた中世城郭都市の姿をいまに伝えている。

[田辺 裕・柴田匡平]

出典 小学館 日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)について 情報 | 凡例

<<:  Braganza Dynasty

>>:  Fracastoro - Furasutoro (English spelling) Girolamo Fracastoro

Recommend

Purse (Frog Purse) - Purse

A general term for bags with a clasp. In the past,...

Fohn (English spelling)

…It blows across the grasslands accompanying a co...

Blast furnace - kouro (English spelling)

Another name for a blast furnace. A furnace used ...

incoherence of thought

...The thought process is the process of analyzin...

Innkeeper - Innkeeper

…Many inns had pastures for carriage horses. As a...

Swan - Sir Joseph Wilson Swan

British chemical industrialist and inventor. Born...

Alepisauridae brevirostris (English spelling) Alepisauridaebrevirostris

…[Kawaguchi Koichi]. … *Some of the terminology t...

Chronological system - Nenkiho

〘noun〙 A provision in medieval samurai law that st...

Nobuko

A full-length novel by Miyamoto Yuriko. It was se...

Silk manuscript

It is pronounced "hakusho." A book writt...

ālāpti (English spelling) alapti

… [Karnataka and Hindustani music] Due to differe...

Human trafficking - human trafficking

A human trafficker is someone whose occupation is ...

Oxidation and reduction

In the narrowest sense, oxidation refers to a subs...

Ise Sea

The title of the Saibara piece. The title comes fr...