page_title: Batalha, Portugal
section_title: Demography
hierarchical_section_title: Batalha, Portugal / Demography
caption_attribution_description: English: Batalha monastery frontside
context_page_description: Batalha is a town and a municipality in Leiria District, Pinhal Litoral Subregion, Centro Region, Portugal. The town's name means "battle". The municipality population in 2011 was 15,805, in an area of 103.42 square kilometres. The town proper has about 7,500 inhabitants. The municipality is limited to the North and West by the municipality of Leiria, to the East by Ourém, to the Southeast by Alcanena and to the Southwest by Porto de Mós.
  The town was founded by King D. João I of Portugal, jointly with the Monastery of Santa Maria da Vitória na Batalha, to pay homage to the Portuguese victory at the Battle of Aljubarrota that put an end to the 1383–1385 Crisis.
  The Portuguese professor and sociologist Moisés Espírito Santo was born there.
caption: Frontside of Batalha Monastery
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