Baleizão

Baleizão is a Portuguese freguesia ("civil parish") of the municipality of Beja.

The population in 2011 was 902,[1] in an area of 139.74 km2.

[2] The parish contains Monte do Olival ("Hill of the Olive Grove"), where Catarina Eufémia was murdered in 1954.

She subsequently became a national icon of the resistance against the Estado Novo regime.

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