Campolide

Campolide
Campolide
Civil parish
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Campolide (Portuguese pronunciation:

Benfica, and south of São Domingos de Benfica. The population in 2011 was 15,460,^[1]^[2]

History

Campolide was the site of a major battle on 5 September 1833, when the forces of

Dom Pedro, as Pedro attempted to wrest back control of Portugal from his brother.^[3]

Campolide was made a freguesia of Lisbon on February 7, 1959.

On 7 August 2008, two Brazilian robbers robbed a Banco Espírito Santo branch kidnapping six hostages, including the bank manager. This hostage hijacking ended with the intervention of the special forces of Portuguese police.

Population growth of the Campolide parish ^[4]
1960	1970	1981	1991	2001	2011
33 764	31 017	26 655	20 972	15 927	15 460

^ Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), Census 2011 results according to the 2013 administrative division of Portugal
^ "Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país". Archived from the original on 2018-11-05. Retrieved 2018-11-05.
^ Neill Macaulay, Dom Pedro. The Struggle for Liberty in Brazil and Portugal, 1798-1834 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1986), p. 292
^ Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Recenseamentos Gerais da População) - https://www.ine.pt/xportal/xmain?xpid=INE&xpgid=ine_publicacoes