 moimenta da beira () is a municipality in the northern part of portugal, located in the district of viseu. the population in 2011 was 10,212,instituto nacional de estatÃ­stica in an area of 219.97&nbsp;kmÂ².eurostat ==history== moimenta's history is fairly recent: alfonso iii of asturias conquered lamego from the moors, when the first settlements along the douro began by remnants of visigothic tribes. "and there they entered into power, becoming absolute masters of everything that the force of arms would take", from the writings of the scribe santa rosa viterbo. these bands created rural villages and homes that received in their local dialects the names leomil, baldos, alvite, toitam, mileu, segÃµes, sever and ariz. the inhabitants of the mountains and castros, such as pÃªra, caria and sÃ£o fÃ©lix, began to descend into the valleys, abandoning the rudimentary and fragile fortifications to work in the towns for the signeurial masters. during this epoch, one of these lands (actually insignificant), whose name was implied to the localities ceremonial and funerary importance; it served as a place of homeage and worship of the dead, and its name moimenta () was in reference to its mausoleum in honour of the dead. by the 12th century all the civil parishes that now exist were already part of the moimenta administration, although leomil (couto) and caria (honra) had their own magistrate 
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