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Tarazona is a municipality (pop. 10,667) in the Spanish province of Zaragoza, in the autonomous community of Aragon. Categories: Spain geography stubs | Aragon | Provinces of Spain ... 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 seats...

External links

Comarca de Tarazona y el Moncayo (http://www.tarazona.org/) (in Spanish).
Article on The Diocese of Tarazona (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14452a.htm) in The Catholic Encyclopedia.
Tarazona entry (http://www.spain.info/TourSpain/Destinos/TipoIII/Datos+Generales/B/VM/0/tarazona?language=en) at a travel site.
"Off the Beaten Path in Tarazona, Spain: Rescuing A Corner Of The Past" (http://www.heritagetoursonline.com/jewish_heritage/tarazona.html) by Walter Ruby, on Jewish Heritage.
Photograph of Tarazona (http://www.donquijote.org/photocontest/rate.asp?id=144&cat=&des=Sevilla)

Categories: Aragon | Spain geography stubs The Catholic Encyclopedia is an English-language encyclopedia published in 1913 by the Roman Catholic Church, designed to give authoritative information on the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrine. Starting in 1993, the encyclopedia (now in the public domain) was placed on the Internet through a world-wide... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ...

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Tarazona (1143 words)
	The Diocese of Tarazona comprises the Spanish provinces of Saragossa, Soria, Navarre, and Logroño.
	A Bishop Stephen assisted at the Third Council of Toledo and at the Council of Saragossa; Floridius, at that of Gundemar (611); Elpisius, at the Fourth and Fifth Council of Toledo; Antherius (683) sent a deacon to represent him at the Thirteenth Council of Toledo; and Nepotianus assisted at the fifteenth and seventeenth.
	Tarazona was laid waste and its cathedral desecrated by the Castilians.

Articles - Travel::Tarazona (531 words)
	Tarazona's Gothic cathedral, started in the 12th century and completed in the 16th century, is its primary attraction.
	Tarazona also, until the expulsion of the Jews in 1492, had a vibrant Jewish population in the old part of town.
	The food of Tarazona is known for its almost austere plainness; this has been tempered lately by chefs who have brought an elegance to their cooking.

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