Mocejón is a municipality located in the
province of Toledo
Toledo () is a Province (Spain), province of central Spain, in the western part of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha. It is bordered by the provinces of Madrid Province, Madrid, Cuenca Province (Spai ...
,
Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2006
census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...
(
INE), the municipality has a population of 4,963 inhabitants. It belongs to the region of
La Sagra
La Sagra is a region in central Spain lying between the cities of Madrid and Toledo. In a wider sense, it includes municipalities belonging to both the south of the Community of Madrid and the north of the province of Toledo. In a more restricted ...
. It stands at about 480 metres above mean sea level.
By 1166, the hamlet of Mocejón was donated by
Alfonso VIII
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 ...
to the knight Pedro Rodríguez de Azagra.
References
Municipalities in the Province of Toledo
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