Lower Aragon
Lower Aragon
Bajo Aragón / Baixo Aragón / Baix Aragó | |
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Lower Aragon (
The
All the villages traditionally taking part in the characteristic and loud Drum and Bass drum Route during Holy Week processions are included in Lower Aragon historical region.
History
In 1707, following King
After the territorial division of Spain in 1833 there have been attempts to create again a fourth province of Aragon with its capital in Alcañiz. These proposals were based on the limited relationship that the municipal areas of Lower Aragon have had with Teruel, the capital of the province in which most of the historical region of Lower Aragon is presently included.
In 1935, at the time of the
Present-day status
Lower Aragon was divided into the smaller administrative comarcas after the official delimitation of the
Since the current Bajo Aragón administrative division is only a small fraction of the historical territory, the name Bajo Aragón histórico is now commonly used in order to distinguish it from the homonymous small comarca.[4]
See also
- Bajo Aragón
- Comarcas of Aragón
- 1833 territorial division of Spain
References
- ^ Paseando por Valderrobres Archived 2009-12-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Eliseo Serrano Martín, El Matarraña y la Historia Moderna. Portal Aragon.
- ^ Los alcaldes de Morella, Vinaroz y Alcañiz piden a Fomento que la N232 coincida con la autovia que comunicará Aragón con el Mediterráneo
- ^ Bajo Aragón entry in the Gran Enciclopedia Aragonesa (In Spanish).