La Puebla de Arganzón (also written Lapuebla de Arganzón) is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

located in the

province of Burgos The province of Burgos is a Provinces of Spain, province of northern Spain, in the northeastern part of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Castile-Leon, Castile and León. It is bordered by the provinces of Palencia (p ...

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, Spain. It is in the Comarca del Ebro and the

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Miranda de Ebro Miranda de Ebro () is a Spanish municipality belonging to the province of Burgos in the autonomous community of Castile and León. Straddling the Ebro river, near its confluence with the Bayas, the city is located on the northern watershed of the ...

. According to the INE, the municipality had a population of 529 inhabitants in 2009. INE, 2009. Query at http://www.ine.es/. Accessed online 2010-01-01. La Puebla de Arganzón and the adjacent municipality of

Condado de Treviño Condado de Treviño ("County of Treviño") is a municipality in the province of Burgos, autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain. This municipality and the geographically smaller La Puebla de Arganzón make up the enclave of Treviño. Al ...

together constitute the

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, part of the territory of Burgos, surrounded by the

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province of

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.Visitando La Puebla de Arganzón
, ''El Correo'' (Bilbao), 2009-12-14. Accessed online 2010-01-01. La Puebla de Arganzón has a surface area of with a population of 529 and a population density of . The municipality of La Puebla de Arganzón is made up of two towns, the more important one sharing the name La Puebla de Arganzón; the other is Villanueva de la Oca, a small rural community. There was older settlement named Arganzón, about a kilometre away from the present ''La Puebla''. Its existence is cited as early as the year 871, but it disappeared in the 18th century. The present Puebla de Arganzón was founded toward the end of the 12th century, at a time of border wars between the kingdoms of Castile and

Navarre Navarre ( ; ; ), officially the Chartered Community of Navarre, is a landlocked foral autonomous community and province in northern Spain, bordering the Basque Autonomous Community, La Rioja, and Aragon in Spain and New Aquitaine in France. ...

. It obtained a ''

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'' establishing it as a community in 1191. According to José Joaquín de Landázuri, that ''fuero'' was granted by the Navarrese king Sancho VI ("Sancho el Sabio", "Sancho the Wise"), not by

Alfonso VIII of Castile Alfonso VIII (11 November 11555 October 1214), called the Noble (El Noble) or the one of Las Navas (el de las Navas), was King of Castile from 1158 to his death and King of Toledo. After having suffered a great defeat with his own army at Alarc ...

. A large part of medieval La Puebla de Arganzón, a boat-shaped area that stretches from north to south, survives today, although new development has increased the size and population in recent years.

Demographic history

In fiction

The fictional liberal crusader Salvador Monsalud, hero of the ten books of the second series of

Benito Pérez Galdós Benito María de los Dolores Pérez Galdós (; 10 May 1843 – 4 January 1920) was a Spanish Spanish Realist literature, realist novelist. He was a leading literary figure in 19th-century Spain, and some scholars consider him second only to Mi ...

's '' Episodios Nacionales'' (written 1875–1879) was a native of La Puebla de Arganzón.

,
El equipaje del rey José
' (Digital edition 2001, based on Madrid: Imprenta y Litografía de La Guirnalda, 1875), Chapter 1, p. 11

Online at Biblioteca Cervantes Virtual.

References

External links

Lapuebladearganzon.net
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