Almodôvar

Almodôvar is a town and a municipality in the District of Beja, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 7,449, in an area of 777.88 km².The present Mayor is António Bota, a member of the Socialist Party.The town's Museum of Southwestern Writing is featured on episode 1 of the three part documentary The Celts: Blood, Iron and Sacrifice, which was broadcast by the BBC in 2015, and hosted by Alice Roberts and Neil Oliver, featuring stone tables containing what some archeologists believe to be a proto-Celtic language.ParishesThe municipality is subdivided into the following parishes: Aldeia dos Fernandes Almodôvar e Graça dos Padrões Santa Clara-a-Nova e Gomes Aires Rosário Santa Cruz São BarnabéHistoryThe village of Almodôvar is signaled in medieval islamic cartography under the name "Al-mudura" meaning "thing in round" or "surrounded in round". The settlement was rebuilt at the time of the muslim invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, with walls surrounding it and a castle inside. Remains of which have, however, disappeared.