Alegría-Dulantzi ( , ), formerly known in Spanish as Alegría de Álava, is a village and
municipality
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located in the province of
Álava
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, in the
Basque Country, northern
Spain
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. It is located at some from the provincial capital,
Vitoria-Gasteiz
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.
The
Battle of Alegría de Álava took place here in 1834.
Geography
Administrative subdivisions
Alegría-Dulantzi is divided into 2 villages, both of them organized as ''
concejos''. By far the larger of the two is the municipal centre and township of
Alegría-Dulantzi itself, which accounts for some 95% of the municipality's population. The other one is
Egileta, an
exclave
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located to the southeast.
References
External links
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Alegria de Alava
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