Caxias

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Caxias, Maranhão

Caxias is a municipality in the state of Maranhão in the Northeast region of Brazil.

It is the fifth largest city in the state, with a population of 155129 inhabitants and an area of about 5150 km2.

The Brazilian poet Gonçalves Dias was born in Caxias.

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Coordinates: 4°51′32″S 43°21′21″W / 4.85889°S 43.35583°W / -4.85889; -43.35583

Caxias (Oeiras)

Caxias is a former civil parish in the municipality of Oeiras, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Oeiras e São Julião da Barra, Paço de Arcos e Caxias. The population in 2011 was 9,007, in an area of 3.41 km².

From pre-history to Rome

The area was developed alongside the Ribeira de Barcarena, through four stations classified by the Archaeological Chart of the Municipality: during the Paleolíthic, near the Quinta do Jardim(estação nº.74), in the immediate surroundings of Laveiras (nº.76) and at the beach near the São Bruno's Fort, in the confluence with the Ribeira de Barcarena(nº.77); and probably, in the Neolithic, in the Laveiras Station (Above mentioned).

At the station nº.75 in Laveiras, a tomb stone of Flavius Wuadratus of the II Roman Legion was found, validating the Roman presence in the area.

Prison

Caxias became infamous for its prison, used by the Estado Novo regime (and its secret police, the PIDE) for the imprisonment of political dissidents between the 1930s and the Carnation Revolution in 1974.