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Murcia is one of Spain's seventeen autonomous communities, located in the southeast of the country between Andalucía and Valencia, on the Mediterranean coast. Image File history File links Description: Flag of Región de Murcia Source: Sodipodis Clip Art Gallery Date: Author: Sodipoi Permission: Public domain Other versions of this file: - File links The following pages link to this file: Murcia (autonomous community) Flags of the autonomous communities of Spain ...
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In politics, a capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has an alternative meaning based on an alternative meaning of capital) is the principal city or town associated with its government. ...
Murcia (37°59′N 1°8′W) is a city on the river Segura in southeastern Spain and the capital of the Autonomous Community of Murcia. ...
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Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ...
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Here is a list of the autonomous communities of Spain in order of population. ...
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June 9 is the 160th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (161st in leap years), with 205 days remaining. ...
1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The Cortes Generales (English: General Courts) is the Spanish legislature. ...
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The Spanish Senate (Spanish: Senado) is the upper house of the Cortes Generales, Spains legislative branch. ...
From the left: Mariano Rajoy, Josep Piqué and José María Aznar during the proclamation act of Josep Piqué in September 2003 The Peoples Party (Spanish: Partido Popular) is a large liberal-conservative political party in Spain. ...
Autonomous communities of Spain. ...
Motto: Dominator Hercules Fundator AndalucÃa por sÃ, para España y la humanidad (Andalusia for herself, for Spain, and for humanity) Capital Seville Area – Total – % of Spain Ranked 2nd 87 268 km² 17,2% Population – Total (2003) – % of Spain – Density Ranked 1st 7 478 432 17,9% 85,70...
Capital Valencia Official languages Valencian (Catalan) and Spanish (Castilian) Area – total – % of Spain Ranked 8th 23 255 km² 4,6% Population – Total (2003) – % of Spain – Density Ranked 4th 4 326 708 10,3% 186,05/km² Demonym – English – Valencian – Spanish Valencian valencià/valenciana valenciano/valenciana Statute of Autonomy July 10...
Satellite image The Mediterranean Sea is a part of the Atlantic Ocean almost completely enclosed by land, on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia. ...
It consists of one province, and contains the city of Murcia which is the capital of the province and the community. Other cities located in Murcia include Cartagena and Lorca. See List of municipalities in Murcia. In addition to its seventeen autonomous communities, Spain is divided into fifty provinces. ...
Murcia (37°59′N 1°8′W) is a city on the river Segura in southeastern Spain and the capital of the Autonomous Community of Murcia. ...
In politics, a capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has an alternative meaning based on an alternative meaning of capital) is the principal city or town associated with its government. ...
For other places of the same name, see Cartagena. ...
Lorca is a city in southeast Spain, in the autonomous community of Murcia. ...
This is a list of the municipalities in the province and autonomous community of Murcia, Spain. ...
Murcia is bordered by Andalucía (provinces of Almería and Granada), Castilla-La Mancha (province of Albacete), which was historically connected to Murcia until 1833, Valencia (province of Alicante), and the Mediterranean Sea. Highest mountain is Revolcadores (2 015 m). Motto: Dominator Hercules Fundator AndalucÃa por sÃ, para España y la humanidad (Andalusia for herself, for Spain, and for humanity) Capital Seville Area – Total – % of Spain Ranked 2nd 87 268 km² 17,2% Population – Total (2003) – % of Spain – Density Ranked 1st 7 478 432 17,9% 85,70...
Almer a is a province of southern Spain, in the eastern part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. ...
Granada is a province of southern Spain, in the eastern part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. ...
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Albacete province Albacete is a province of central Spain, in the southern part of the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha. ...
1833 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
Capital Valencia Official languages Valencian (Catalan) and Spanish (Castilian) Area – total – % of Spain Ranked 8th 23 255 km² 4,6% Population – Total (2003) – % of Spain – Density Ranked 4th 4 326 708 10,3% 186,05/km² Demonym – English – Valencian – Spanish Valencian valencià/valenciana valenciano/valenciana Statute of Autonomy July 10...
Location of Alicante province in Spain. ...
Satellite image The Mediterranean Sea is a part of the Atlantic Ocean almost completely enclosed by land, on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia. ...
The community measures 11 313 km² and has a population of 1,2 million, of whom one-third live in the capital. Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ...
Murcia is a major producer of fruits, vegetables, and flowers for Spain and the rest of Europe. Excellent wineries have developed near the towns of Bullas, Yecla, and Jumilla, as well as olive oil near Moratalla. Murcia is mainly a warm and very arid region and has relied for centuries on extensive irrigation. Water is supplied by the Segura River (Río Segura), which is, unfortunately, one of the most polluted rivers in Europe. Fruit stall in Barcelona, Catalonia. ...
Vegetables in a market Vegetable is a culinary term denoting any part of a plant that is commonly consumed by humans as food, but is not regarded as a culinary grain, fruit, nut, herb, or spice. ...
Clivia miniata bears bright orange flowers. ...
Yecla is a town in eastern Spain, in the extreme north of the autonomous community of Murcia. ...
Jumilla is a wine-producing region in southern Spain. ...
In agriculture, olive oil is an oil extracted from the fruit of the European olive tree , which originated in the Mediterranean area. ...
Pico del Buitre (2005) Moratalla is a small town, center of a wide municipality (961 km²) in southeastern Spain, belonging to the Autonomous Community of Murcia. ...
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History The Carthaginians established a permanent trading depot on the Murcian coast at Cartagena, which the Romans called Carthago Nova. For the Carthaginian traders, the mountainous territory was merely the Iberian hinterland of their seacoast emporium. Roman Murcia was a part of the province of Hispania Tarraconensis. Under the Moors, who introduced the large-scale irrigation on which Murcian agriculture depends, the province was known as Todmir; it included, according to Idrisi, the 11th century Arab cartographer based in Sicily, the cities of Murcia, Orihuela, Cartagena, Lorca, Mula and Chinchilla. This article is about the ancient city-state of Carthage in North Africa. ...
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For other places of the same name, see Cartagena. ...
City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area - City Proper 1290 km² Population - City (2004) - Metropolitan - Density (city proper) 2,823,807 almost 4,000,000 1...
Carthago Nova (New Carthage, Carthage already meaning new city in Punic) is the Latin name of the most important Carthaginian coastal trading colony in Spain. ...
Iberia can mean: The Iberian peninsula of southwest Europe; That part of it inhabited by the Iberians, speaking the Iberian language. ...
Emporium is an old-fashioned term for a Department store and for marketplaces or trading centers in ancient cities. ...
Map of the Roman Empire, with the provinces, after 120 AD. In Ancient Rome, a province (Latin, provincia, pl. ...
Roman Imperial province of Hispania Tarraconensis, 120 AD Hispania Tarraconensis was one of three Roman provinces in Hispania. ...
The Moors were the medieval Muslim inhabitants of al-Andalus (the Iberian Peninsula including the present day Spain and Portugal) and the Maghreb, whose culture is often called Moorish. // Origins of the name The name derives from the old tribe of the Mauri and their kingdom, Mauretania. ...
High-altitude aerial view of irrigation in the Heart of the Sahara Irrigation (in agriculture) is the replacement or supplementation of rainfall with water from another source in order to grow crops. ...
Al-Idrisis world map from 1154. ...
As a means of recording the passage of time, the 11th century was that century which lasted from 1001 to 1100. ...
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Cartography is the study of map making and cartographers are map makers. ...
Sicilian disambiguates here; see also Sicilian language or Sicilian Defence. ...
Murcia (37°59′N 1°8′W) is a city on the river Segura in southeastern Spain and the capital of the Autonomous Community of Murcia. ...
Orihuela or Oriola (in Catalan) is a city located in the province of Alicante, Spain. ...
Lorca is a city in southeast Spain, in the autonomous community of Murcia. ...
Mula is a place in the autonomous community Murcia in Spain. ...
Genera Chinchilla Lagidium Lagostomus Chinchillas and their relatives viscachas are small, nocturnal mammals native to the Andes mountains in South America and belonging to the family Chinchillidae. ...
The kingdom of Murcia came into independent existence as a taifa centered on the Moorish city of Murcia after the fall of the Omayyad Caliphate of Córdoba (11th century). Moorish Murcia included Albacete and part of Almería as well. After the battle of Sagrajas in 1086 the Almoravid dynasty swallowed up the taifas and reunited Islamic Spain. Ferdinand III of Castile received the submission of the Moorish king of Murcia in 1243. By the usual process, the Muslims were evicted from the cities, and Ferdinand's heir Alfonso X of Castile, for the better governing of a depopulated Murcia, divided the administration of the border kingdom in three regions, entrusted respectively to the concejos de realengo, to the ecclesiastical señores seculares, as a reward for their contributions to the Reconquista and to the Military Orders founded in the 11th century. Alfonso annexed the Kingdom of Murcia outright in 1266, and it remained technically a vassal kingdom of Spain until the reforms in the liberal constitution of 1812. Murcia became an autonomous region in 1982. The term taifa in the history of Iberia refers to an independent Muslim-ruled principality, an emirate or petty kingdom, of which a number formed in Spain (Arabic: Al-Andalus) after the final collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba in 1031. ...
The Umayyad Dynasty (Arabic الأمويون / بنو أمية umawiyy; in Turkish, Emevi) was the first dynasty of caliphs of the Prophet Muhammad who were not closely related to Muhammad himself, though they were of the same Meccan tribe, the Quraish. ...
The interior of the Great Mosque in Córdoba, now a Christian cathedral. ...
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. ...
AlmerÃa (2003 pop. ...
Almoravides (From Arabic المرابطون sing. ...
Ferdinand III, the Saint, (1198/1199 - May 30, 1252) was a king of Castile (1217 - 1252) and Leon (1230 - 1252). ...
Alfonso X and his court. ...
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1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Culture The Spanish spoken in Murcia is quite different from other areas of Spain. "Murciano" tends to eliminate many syllable-final consonants and to emphasize regional vocabulary, much of which is derived from old Arabic words. Some Murcian countryfolk still speak a separate dialect, called Panocho, which is virtually unintelligible to speakers of standard Spanish language. Arabic (; , less formally, ) is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ...
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Communications The San Javier-Murcia Airport (IATA Airport Code MJV) is a military air base and passenger facility located in San Javier, 17 miles south of Murcia, Spain. ...
For other places of the same name, see Cartagena. ...
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Autonomous communities of Spain. ...
Motto: Dominator Hercules Fundator AndalucÃa por sÃ, para España y la humanidad (Andalusia for herself, for Spain, and for humanity) Capital Seville Area – Total – % of Spain Ranked 2nd 87 268 km² 17,2% Population – Total (2003) – % of Spain – Density Ranked 1st 7 478 432 17,9% 85,70...
Capital Zaragoza Area – Total – % of Spain Ranked 4th 47 719 km² 9,4% Population – Total (2003) – % of Spain – Density Ranked 11th 1 217 514 2,9% 25,51/km² Demonym – English – Spanish Aragonese aragonés Statute of Autonomy August 16, 1982 ISO 3166-2 AR Parliamentary representation – Congress seats – Senate...
Capital Oviedo Area – Total – % of Spain Ranked 10th 10 604 km² 2,1% Population – Total (2003) – % of Spain – Density Ranked 12th 1 056 789 2,5% 99,65/km² Demonym – English – Asturian – Spanish Asturian asturianu/a, asturiano/a Statute of Autonomy January 11, 1982 Parliamentary representation – Congress seats – Senate seats...
Capital Palma de Mallorca Official languages Catalan and Spanish Area – Total – % of Spain Ranked 17th 4 992 km² 1,0% Population – Total (2003) – % of Spain – Density Ranked 14th 916 968 2,2% 183,69/km² Demonym – English – Catalan – Spanish Balearic balear balear Statute of Autonomy March 1, 1983 ISO 3166...
Capital Gasteiz Official languages Spanish and Basque Area – Total – % of Spain Ranked 14th 7 234 km² 1,4% Population – Total (2003) – % of Spain – Density Ranked 7th 2 108 281 5,0% 291,44/km² Demonym – English – Spanish – Basque Basque vasco/a euskal herritar, euskaldun GDP GDP/Cápita 30. ...
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Capital Santander Area – Total – % of Spain Ranked 15th 5 321 km² 1. ...
Capital Toledo Area – Total – % of Spain Ranked 3rd 79 463 km² 15,7% Population – Total (2003) – % of Spain – Density Ranked 9th 1 782 038 4,3% 22,43/km² Demonym – English – Spanish Castilian-Manchego castellano-manchego Statute of Autonomy August 16, 1982 ISO 3166-2 CM Parliamentary representation – Congress seats...
Capital Valladolid Area – Total – % of Spain Ranked 1st 94,223 km² 18,6% Population – Total (2003) – % of Spain – Density Ranked 6th 2,480,369 5. ...
Capital Barcelona Official languages Spanish and Catalan In Val dAran, also Aranese. ...
Capital Mérida Area – Total – % of Spain Ranked 5th 41 634 km² 8,2% Population – Total (2003) – % of Spain – Density Ranked 13th 1 073 050 2,6% 25,77/km² Demonym – English – Spanish — extremeño/a, castúo Statute of Autonomy February 26...
The spoken languages are Galician (Galician: Galego or Gallego), the local national language derived from Latin, Leonese in some parts of Ourense and Spanish (castellano or español), in common with the rest of Spain. ...
Capital Madrid Area – Total – % of Spain Ranked 12th 7 995 km² 1,6% Population – Total (2005) – % of Spain – Density Ranked 3rd 5 964 143 13,5% 745,98/km² Demonym – English – Spanish Madrilenian madrileño/a Statute of Autonomy March 1, 1983 ISO 3166-2 M Parliamentary representation – Congress seats...
Navarre (Spanish Navarra, Basque Nafarroa) is an autonomous community and province of Spain. ...
Capital Logroño Area – Total – % of Spain Ranked 16th 5 045 km² 1,0% Population – Total (2003) – % of Spain – Density Ranked 17th 281 614 0,7% 55,82/km² Demonym – English – Spanish — riojano/a Statute of Autonomy June 9, 1982 Parliament – Congress seats – Senate seats 4 1 President Pedro Sanz...
Capital Valencia Official languages Valencian (Catalan) and Castillian (Spanish) Area – total – % of Spain Ranked 8th 23,255 km² 4,6% Population – Total (2003) – % of Spain – Density Ranked 4th 4,692,449 10,6% 201. ...
In addition to its autonomous communities, Spain has five plazas de soberanÃa (places of sovereignty) near Morocco administrated directly by Madrids Government. ...
Eastern Ceuta, as photographed from Morocco. ...
Melilla is a Spanish exclave in North Africa, located on the northernmost tip of Maghreb, on the Mediterranean coast. ...
In addition to its autonomous communities, Spain has five plazas de soberanÃa (places of sovereignty) near Morocco administrated directly by Madrids Government. ...
Islas Chafarinas is a group of three small islands located in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Morocco, 48 km (30 mi) to the east of Melilla and 3. ...
19th-century Spanish map showing the Peñón de Alhucemas Peñón de Alhucemas, or Lavender Rock, is one of the Spanish territories in North Africa off the Moroccan coast, along with the coastal enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, the island of Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera...
19th-century Spanish map showing the Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera is one of the Spanish territories on North Africa off the Moroccan coast (Plazas de soberanÃa), along with the coastal enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, the island...
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