Valongo

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Valongo (Portuguese pronunciation: [vlu] ) is a Portuguese municipality located in the District of Porto and 10 km from Porto, in the northern region of Portugal.The municipality area consists of 75.12 km and 93 858 inhabitants (2011), and it is subdivided into four parishes: Alfena, Campo e Sobrado, Ermesinde and Valongo. The municipality is limited to the north by the municipality of Santo Tirso, to the northeast by Paos de Ferreira, to the east by Paredes, to the southwest by Gondomar and to the west by Maia.== History ==The Municipality of Valongo was created in 1836 as a part of the administrative reform of the country, which occurred during the reign of D. Maria II. However, human occupation of this region predates the Roman conquest of the Iberian-Peninsula.=== Ancient history ===This region was occupied by the Romans, especially for gold mining in the Serra de Santa Justa. One of the traces of Roman occupation is in the municipality name, which originated in the Latin words Vallis Longus. There are still traces that would allow the detection of two main Roman connecting roads that would cross the municipality: the Porto - Guimares road and the Alfena - Valongo - Aguiar de Sousa / Penafiel road.This region would then be occupied by barbarian peoples (Suebi and Visigoths) and later by Arabs and Moors.According to Father Lopes dos Reis, a native of Valongo, the Moors entered Hespanha enthusiastic about the holy war with the alfange in one hand and Alkoro in the other, taking over with their powerful army all the places they could pass through. In Vallongo, perhaps there was no blood at all, because the inhabitants, few and without defense, could only fearlessly try to prevent the passage to a powerful enemy from whom they had known that an army of brave people had fled in terror.