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Ocaña, Spain
Ocaña, a town and municipality of central Spain, in the province of Toledo. It is located on the extreme north of the tableland known as the Mesa de Ocaña, and has a station on the railway from Aranjuez to Cuenca. Toponymy The term ''Ocaña'' seems to have the base word ''olca-'' that originates from the Celtiberian 'fertile ground, meadow', and could have evolved into: ''Olcania > Ocania < Ocaña''. There are other theories, like the one by Nieto Ballester, who states that ''Ocaña'' is a pre-Roman term, maybe Indo-European, but not Celtic. On the other hand, Menéndez Pidal quotes the name of ''Ocaña'' to support his thesis of the Ligurian substratum in the . Geography This t ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of Spain
The municipality ( es, municipio, , ca, municipi, gl, concello, eu, udalerria, ast, conceyu)In other languages of Spain: * Catalan/Valencian (), sing. ''municipi''. * Galician () or (), sing. ''municipio''/''bisbarra''. *Basque (), sing. ''udalerria''. * Asturian (), sing. ''conceyu''. is the basic local administrative division in Spain together with the province. Organisation Each municipality forms part of a province which in turn forms part or the whole of an autonomous community (17 in total plus Ceuta and Melilla): some autonomous communities also group municipalities into entities known as ''comarcas'' (districts) or ''mancomunidades'' (commonwealths). There are a total of 8,131 municipalities in Spain, including the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla. In the Principality of Asturias, municipalities are officially named ''concejos'' (councils). The average population of a municipality is about 5,300, but this figure masks a huge range: the most populo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aranjuez
Aranjuez () is a city and municipality of Spain, part of the Community of Madrid. Located in the southern end of the region, the main urban nucleus lies on the left bank of Tagus, a bit upstream the discharge of the Jarama. , the municipality has a registered population of 59,607. Aranjuez became one of the Royal Estates of the Crown of Spain in 1560, during the reign of Philip II. Until 1752, only the royalty and nobility were allowed to dwell in the town. The Cultural Landscape of Aranjuez was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2001. Name There are several theories about the origin of the name. The most widely accepted one states that it comes from the Basque language, deriving from ''arantza'' ("hawthorn" in English). Another theory, attributed to Padre MartÃn Sarmiento, a Benedictine scholar who lived about a century after the founder of Aranjuez, Philip II of Spain, claims the origin to be from Latin ''Ara Jovis'' or ''Ara Iovia'', which means the altar of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome refers to Roman civilisation from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. It encompasses the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC), Roman Republic (509–27 BC) and Roman Empire (27 BC–476 AD) until the fall of the western empire. Ancient Rome began as an Italic settlement, traditionally dated to 753 BC, beside the River Tiber in the Italian Peninsula. The settlement grew into the city and polity of Rome, and came to control its neighbours through a combination of treaties and military strength. It eventually dominated the Italian Peninsula, assimilated the Greek culture of southern Italy ( Magna Grecia) and the Etruscan culture and acquired an Empire that took in much of Europe and the lands and peoples surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. It was among the largest empires in the ancient world, with an estimated 50 to 90 million inhabitants, roughly 20% of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ciruelos (Toledo)
Ciruelos (Spanish for ''plum trees'', ) is a Chilean village located southeast of Pichilemu, Cardenal Caro Province Cardenal Caro Province ( es, Provincia Cardenal Caro) is one of the three provinces of the central Chilean region of O'Higgins (VI). The capital of Cardenal Caro is Pichilemu. Name The province is named after Cardinal José MarÃa Caro RodrÃgue .... In 1899, it had very few inhabitants, a free school, and a post office. List of parish priests *Tomás Gutiérrez Romo (1779-1782) *Antonio Cornelio de Quesada y Molina (1782-1783) *''Interinos'' (1783-1788) *Tomás Ostolaza y Donoso (1788-1829) *José Alejo Zavala y Vargas (1829-1849) *José del Tránsito Bustamante MartÃnez Coadjutor (1847-1850) *Rafael Jofré Guajardo (1850-1854) *Fernando Barrales (1854-1859) *Vicente Núñez Valdivia y José MarÃa Aguirre interinos (1867) *Pedro Aguilera, ''traslada la sede a Cahuil'' (1859-1867) *José Miguel Vásquez (1867) *José AgustÃn Contreras Jiménez (1867-1869) *Ramà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yepes
Yepes is a ''villa'' (town) in the northern region of the province of Toledo, in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, Spain. Population *The first numbers about the population of Yepes date back to 1534 and account for some 4000 or 5000 inhabitants. *In the 20th century the population was 4767 ( INE 2005). *As the last update (2006): population was some 5200 inhabitants. Geography Situated on the westernmost part of the comarca called ''La Mesa de Ocaña'' (the plateau of Ocaña), its limits are: *North: Aranjuez (province of Madrid), Ciruelos and Ocaña (province of Toledo) *East: Ocaña *South: Villaseca de Yepes and Huerta de Valdecarábanos (Toledo) *West: Aranjuez and Almonacid (Toledo) History Yepes has the first documented human presence in a Celtiberian village, founded ca. 600 BC. The former ''Hippo'' or ''Hippona'' of the Carpetanians, where the Celtiberians defeated the Roman troops of Quintius and Calpurnius, derives its current from the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huerta De Valdecarábanos
Huerta de Valdecarábanos is a municipality located in the province of Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2006 census (INE INE, Ine or ine may refer to: Institutions * Institut für Nukleare Entsorgung, a German nuclear research center * Instituto Nacional de EstadÃstica (other) * Instituto Nacional de EstatÃstica (other) * Instituto Nacional Elec ...), the municipality has a population of 1,784 inhabitants. References Municipalities in the Province of Toledo {{CastileLaMancha-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
