Alhóndiga is a municipality located in the

province of Guadalajara Guadalajara ( , ) is a province of Spain, belonging to the autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha. As of 2019 it had a population of 258,890 people. The population of the province has grown in the last 10 years. It is located in the centre ...

Castilla–La Mancha Castilla–La Mancha (, ; ) is an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Spain. Comprising the provinces of Province of Albacete, Albacete, Province of Ciudad Real, Ciudad Real, Province of Cuenca, Cuenca, Province of Guadalajar ...

, Spain. As of 1 January 2022 it had a registered population of 158. The municipality spans across a total area of 19.26 km². The locality was an early instance of Hospitaller settlement south of the

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, and it was granted a ''

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'' in 1170. Upon the 1170 donation to the Order of St. John, the previous link of Alhóndiga with

Zorita Zorita is a municipality located in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain. According to the 2006 census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population ...

was severed.

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