La Roda De Andalucía
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La Roda de Andalucía 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' ...
of the
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,
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, Spain. In 2005 it had a population of 4,322 inhabitants and an area of . The density is 56.1 ihhab/km2. It is located at an altitude of and is from
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(city).


History

Historians recorded events in the area dating back to ancient Roman times, where battering rams and utensils have been found dating back to the civil war between
Julius Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar (12 or 13 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in Caesar's civil wa ...
and
Pompey Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (; 29 September 106 BC – 28 September 48 BC), known in English as Pompey ( ) or Pompey the Great, was a Roman general and statesman who was prominent in the last decades of the Roman Republic. ...
that were used during the
Battle of Munda The Battle of Munda (17 March 45 BC), in southern Hispania Ulterior, was the final battle of Caesar's civil war against the leaders of the Optimates. With the military victory at Munda and the deaths of Titus Labienus and Gnaeus Pompeius (eld ...
. With the Christian reconquest of
Ferdinand III of Castile Ferdinand III (; 1199/120130 May 1252), called the Saint (''el Santo''), was King of Castile from 1217 and King of León from 1230 as well as King of Galicia from 1231. He was the son of Alfonso IX of León and Berengaria of Castile. Through his ...
, the border town became the Nazari Kingdom of Granada. La Roda, as the whole region of Estepa after the Reconquest, became the domains of the Order of Santiago. In 1559
Philip II of Spain Philip II (21 May 152713 September 1598), sometimes known in Spain as Philip the Prudent (), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, and King of Naples and List of Sicilian monarchs, Sicily from 1554 until his death in 1598. He ...
established the Marquess of Estepa, to which the town belongs until the early nineteenth century. It is in this century that it undergoes a significant change with the arrival of the railroad (lines Córdoba-Málaga and La Roda-Utrera). Since 1916 La Roda is called "DE ANDALUCIA" to distinguish it from other La Rodas in Spain.


International relations


Twin towns — Sister cities

La Roda de Andalucía is twinned with: * Castel Madama, Italy, since 2002


See also

*
List of municipalities in Seville Province of Seville, Seville is a provinces of Spain, province in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain, which is divided into 106 Municipalities of Spain, municipalities. Spanish census, Seville is the ...


References


La Roda de Andalucía
- Multiterritorial Information System of Andalusia
La Roda de Andalucia
Cultural Heritage of La Roda de Andalucía.IAPH Cultural Heritage Municipalities of the Province of Seville {{Andalusia-geo-stub