There is a city in São Paulo, Brazil, called "Bragança Paulista". Those who are born there are called "bragantinos". What is the demonym for the Portuguese district of Bragança? I've heard "brigantino", "bragançano", and "braganção". Perhaps those from southern Portugal use one form and those from the north use another. I'm interested in learning which one a native from Bragança would choose to refer to himself.
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My source, a friend born and bred in the town of Bragança, tells me people from her home town are brigantinos or bragançanos. Brigantino is the more common demonym, and derives from the town's ancient name Brigantia. I am not aware of a name for people from the distrit of Bragança as such, or for people from any other Portuguese district for that matter.
People in Portugal identify themselves with their municipality, which, unlike districts, are very old entities with directly elected officials. The distric of Bragança comprises twelve municipalities. There are names for people from each of these: mirandês or mirandense for someone from Miranda do Douro, vila-florense for someone from Vila Flor, and so on.
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1It could be interesting to note that people in Portugal also identify themselves with their region, although not as often as with their municipality - transmontano, algarvio, and so on.– ANevesCommented Oct 25, 2015 at 23:49
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1True, a bragantino would accept to be called transmontano, but that's somewhat outside the scope of the question.– JacintoCommented Oct 26, 2015 at 0:07
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Jacinto, I really can't understand how the people of a certain town can use two different demonyms to refer to themselves. Do you know which one prevails ? Commented Oct 26, 2015 at 0:21
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@Centaurus: My friend tells me brigantino is the more common demonym. Incorporated it in the answer.– JacintoCommented Oct 26, 2015 at 7:59
In Portugal, those from Bragança are brigantinos or bragantinos.
Wikipedia also registers bragançano, braganção, and bragancês, but as a portuense I'm not familiar with these.
It's difficult to be sure; because of the complexity of the demonyms (albicastrense, escalabitano, oliventino, etc), they are often not very well-known. This could easily explain the origin of the different registers.
Further reading: WP>lista de gentílicos de Portugal
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I'm sorry, but the question is not what they are called in Portugal, but what they are called in Bragança. Commented Oct 25, 2015 at 21:43
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You forgot to downvote, @Centaurus . :) (
This answer is not useful, says the downvote tooltip.) I did not notice the stress on "what they call themselves" when I read the question; maybe you could rephrase it.– ANevesCommented Oct 25, 2015 at 23:55 -
1ANeves, I didn't forget. Instead, I'm upvoting it. It may not be the right answer but +1 for trying. Commented Oct 26, 2015 at 0:15
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