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Encyclopedia > Almansa
Almansa
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Location of Almansa in Spain Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (778x1132, 40 KB) Castillo de Almansa (Albacete). ... Image File history File links Sin_bandera. ... Image File history File links Escudo_Almansa_Albacete. ... Image File history File links Albacete_Almansa_Mapa_municipal. ...

Coordinates : 31°58′ N 1°05′ O
Time Zone : CET (GMT +1)
- summer: CEST (GMT +2)
General information
Native name Almansa (Spanish)
Spanish name Almansa
Postal code 02640
Area code 34 (Spain) + 967 (Albacete)
Website http://www.almansa.es/
Administration
Country Spain
Autonomous Community Castilla-La Mancha
Province Albacete
Comarca [[|Corredor de Almansa]]
Mayor Antonio Callado García (PSOE)
Geography
Land Area 531.6 km²
Altitude 713 m AMSL
Population
Population 25075 (2006)
Density 47.2 hab./km² (2006)

Almansa is a Spanish city and municipality in the province of Albacete, part of the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha. Almansa is also a wine appellation in the Spanish Denominación de Origen system. A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... This article is about the international language known as Spanish. ... A postal code (known in various countries as a post code, postcode, or ZIP code) is a series of letters and/or digits appended to a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail. ... A telephone numbering plan is a system that allows subscribers to make and receive telephone calls across long distances. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ... The term Administration, as used in the context of government, differs according to jurisdiction. ... Look up country in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Spains fifty provinces (provincias) are grouped into seventeen autonomous communities (comunidades aut nomas), in addition to two African autonomous cities (ciudades aut nomas) (Ceuta and Melilla). ... Capital Toledo Area  â€“ Total  â€“ % of Spain Ranked 3rd 79 463 km² 15,7% Population  â€“ Total (2003)  â€“ % of Spain  â€“ Density Ranked 9th  1 782 038  4,3%  22,43/km² Demonym  â€“ English  â€“ Spanish  Castilian-Manchego  castellano-manchego Statute of Autonomy August 16, 1982 ISO 3166-2 CM Parliamentary representation  â€“ Congress seats... A province is a territorial unit, almost always a country subdivision. ... Albacete is a city in southeastern Spain, 173 miles southeast of Madrid, the capital of the province of Albacete in the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha. ... This is a list of the comarques (singular comarca) of Catalonia. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger, greater) is the modern title of the highest ranking municipal officer. ... José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero at a meeting in San Sebastián The Spanish Socialist Workers Party, commonly abbreviated by its Spanish initials, PSOE (Partido Socialista Obrero Español), is a major party in Spain and the second oldest, exceeded only by the Partido Carlista, founded in 1833. ... Altitude is the elevation of an object from a known level or datum. ... The term above mean sea level (AMSL) refers to the elevation (on the ground) or altitude (in the air) of any object, relative to the average sea level. ... In physics, Density is defined as mass m per unit volume V. Mathematically, it is expressed as where, in SI units: ρ (rho) is the density of the substance, measured in kg m-3 m is the mass of the substance, measured in kg v is the volume of the substance... A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly referring to a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them. ... Albacete province Albacete is a province of central Spain, in the southern part of the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha. ... Autonomous communities of Spain. ... Capital Toledo Area  â€“ Total  â€“ % of Spain Ranked 3rd 79 463 km² 15,7% Population  â€“ Total (2003)  â€“ % of Spain  â€“ Density Ranked 9th  1 782 038  4,3%  22,43/km² Demonym  â€“ English  â€“ Spanish  Castilian-Manchego  castellano-manchego Statute of Autonomy August 16, 1982 ISO 3166-2 CM Parliamentary representation  â€“ Congress seats... An appellation in its broadest sense is a name or designation. ... Denominación de origen is an appellation for Spanish wines. ...


See also

Combatants Philippists Kingdom of France Kingdom of Spain Austriacists Britain Portugal United Provinces Commanders Duke of Berwick Marquis de Ruvigny Marquês das Minas Strength 25,000 22,000 Casualties 3,500 dead or wounded 5,000 dead or wounded 12,000 captured The Battle of Almansa, fought on April...

External links

  • (Spanish) Portal of Almansa

Coordinates: 38°52′N 1°06′W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...


  Results from FactBites:
 
ABC.es Hemeroteca: fernando almansa una decada con el rey (836 words)
Entre los momentos más complicados de su etapa, Almansa destacó los duros días en los que ETA secuestró y posteriormente asesinó a Miguel Ángel Blanco.
En otro orden de cosas, Almansa también reconoció que el año pasado fue muy complicado como consecuencia de los problemas mediáticos que surgieron en torno a la relación entre el Príncipe de Asturias y la modelo Eva Sannum.
Además, Almansa puso fecha de caducidad a estos puestos, que hasta entonces eran de carácter casi vitalicio.
La Batalla de Almansa (2098 words)
La batalla de Almansa tuvo lugar el 25 de abril de 1707 en las proximidades del puerto del mismo nombre en Albacete.
Nuestra derecha, después de haber empujado todo lo que había ante ella, avanzó en orden de batalla sobre el flanco izquierdo de la derecha del enemigo, intentando éste retirarse, pero fue empujado tan de cerca, que pronto se dispersó, y huyendo a plena velocidad, su infantería fue destrozada.
En Almansa se levantó un monumento en memoria de la batalla y se creó todo un regimiento con el nombre de la misma ciudad para conmemorar el triunfo borbónico.
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