Valença, also known as Valença do Minho, is a municipality and a town in Portugal, bordering Tui, Galicia. The population in 2011 was 14,127, in an area of 117.13 km2.
Francisco Xavier da Silva Pereira, 1st Count of Antas was a Portuguese nobleman and a leading soldier of the period of the Liberal Wars.
Valença, Portugal
…Theotonius of Coimbra (ca.1082 - 1162) (São Teotónio) a Canon Regular, royal adviser and the first Portuguese saint Francisco Xavier da Silva Pereira, 1st Count of Antas (1793–1852) a nobleman and a soldier during the Liberal Wars António Sampaio da Nóvoa (born 1954) an academic professor and unsuccessful independent…