Villarrubia de los Ojos

Coordinates: 39°13′N 3°36′W / 39.217°N 3.600°W / 39.217; -3.600
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Villarrubia de los Ojos
Postal code
13670

Villarrubia de los Ojos is a

municipality of Spain located in the province of Ciudad Real, Castilla–La Mancha.[2] The municipality spans across a total area of 281.86 km2 and, as of 1 January 2020, it has a registered population of 9,762.[2]

Geography

The

Tablas de Daimiel wetlands, shared with the neighbouring municipality, Daimiel
.

The landforms of Villarrubia de los Ojos are mountainous in the north and flat in the south. The weather is quite strong with very cold winters and very hot summers. There are some mountains over 1,200 metres and the flat zone is at 550 metres above sea level in the Spanish central plateau.

History

Control over the territory passed from the

Order of St. John of Jerusalem to the Order of Calatrava on the wake of the 1212 Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa.[4] The demarcation of the area in the concord of 1232 confirmed the Calatravan control of Villarrubia.[5]

Together with

moriscos from Villarrubia (and the wider Campo) tax exemptions, as if they were for all legal purposes old christians.[7] Tightly assimilated into the local society, the moriscos from Villarrubia fiercely refused their decreed expulsion, and the local lord, the Count of Salinas [es] (and President of the Council of Portugal), lobbied in order to curb the impact of the measure.[8] Following the two expulsions from 1611 and 1612, most of the expelled moriscos were able to return to Villarrubia.[9]

References

  1. ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
  2. ^ a b "Datos del Registro de Entidades Locales". Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  3. ^ Importancia de los humedales en Villarrubia
  4. ^ Ruiz Gómez 2002, p. 37.
  5. ^ "Estudio Socioeconómico del Campo de Calatrava Histórico". Diputación Provincial de Ciudad Real. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  6. ^ a b Dadson 2014, p. 13.
  7. ^ Martínez Almira 2018, p. 49.
  8. ^ Benítez Sánchez-Blanco 2008, pp. 245–249.
  9. ^ Dadson 2009, pp. 222–223.

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