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unusual facts about Comarca


Catalan Gothic

The term "Catalan Gothic" is confined to Barcelona and its area of influence (the former Comarca of Barcelona), which has its own characteristics.


2012 Catalan independence demonstration

Then, the town Capmany—symbolising the "fight against fire" after its comarca of Alt Empordà suffered a serious wildfire this summer—delivered the Catalan flag to President Artur Mas.

Albiol

Albiol, a municipality in Baix Camp comarca, Tarragona Province, Spain

Alfoz de Burgos

It is bounded on the north-west by La Bureba, north-east by the Páramos comarca, south-west by the Arlanza comarca, south-east by the Sierra de la Demanda, on the east by the Odra-Pisuerga comarca and west by the Montes de Oca.

Asturianos

Asturianos is a municipality located in the Sanabria comarca, province of Zamora, Castile and León, Spain.

Asturias de Oviedo

Asturias de Oviedo is one of the historical comarcas in the Kingdom of Asturias.

In the 1833 territorial division of Spain the comarca was mostly converted into the province of Oviedo, now the province of Asturias.

Baix Vinalopó

Some important natural places are the swamps in the lower part of the comarca known as El Fondo Natural Park and the Salines de Santa Pola Natural Park, both Ramsar sites.

Basharat Mosque

The Basharat Mosque (span.: Mezquita Basharat; the name means “good news”) was inaugurated on September 10, 1982 in Pedro Abad, in the Spanish comarca of Alto Guadalquivir, province of Córdoba by Mirza Tahir Ahmad (late), fourth Caliph of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (currently fifth Caliph Mirza Masroor Ahmad heads the Community).

Batea

Batea, Tarragona, a municipality in the comarca of Terra Alta, Catalonia, Spain

Besalú

The town's importance was greater in the early Middle Ages, as capital of the county of Besalú, whose territory was roughly the same size as the current comarca of Garrotxa but sometime extended as far as Corbières, Aude, in France.

Cabezo de Altomira

Cabezo de Altomira is a mountain located about 4 km NE of the town of Alfamén, Campo de Cariñena comarca, Aragon, Spain.

Caldelas

Terra de Caldelas, a comarca in the province of Ourense, Galicia, Spain.

Corbin

Corbins, a municipality in the comarca of the Segrià in Catalonia, Spain

County of Besalú

The original pagus comprised the territories of Garrotxa and those neighbouring Montgrony and Setcases in the comarca of Ripollès as far as Agullana and Figueres (in Alt Empordà) and Banyoles in Pla de l'Estany.

Espadella

Espadella, a 968 m high peak, highest point of the Serra de l'Espadella range in the Baix Maestrat comarca, Valencian Community, Spain.

Espadilla, a municipality in the Alt Millars comarca, Valencian Community, Spain.

Falset

Falset, Tarragona, the principal village of the comarca of the Priorat in Catalonia

Gúdar-Javalambre

The Sierra de Gúdar and the Sierra de Javalambre dominate the landscape and give their name to the comarca.

Instituto Nacional de Colonización

Many of the new villages were given a name related to the nearest river or even a name with an explicit reference to the Caudillo in order to cast a benevolent image of dictator Francisco Franco, like Llanos del Caudillo, Villafranco del Delta, a village in the Montsià comarca nowadays rechristened as El Poblenou del Delta or Isla Mayor near Seville, the former Villafranco del Guadalquivir.

José Lamiel

José Asensio Lamiel (born 29 January 1924) is an Aragonese painter and sculptor born in Calanda in the Spanish comarca of Bajo Aragón.

L'Horta

Horta of Valencia, a horticultural region in Central Valencia (see also horta) and a historic comarca of the Valencian Community.

La Carballeda

Some of the villages included in the historical comarca are part of municipal terms which are now included the Sanabria comarca.

La Selva de Mar

La Selva de Mar is a municipality in the comarca of the Alt Empordà in Catalonia, Spain.

Litera

La Litera, comarca (administrative division) in Huesca, Aragon, Spain

Lobo Hill

Lobo, also known as El Lobo, Cabezo del Lobo, Cerro del Lobo and Mojón del Lobo, is a 630 m high mountain in the Campo de Belchite comarca, Zaragoza Province, Aragon, Spain, located about 3 km to the south of Belchite and 2 km east of Almonacid de la Cuba.

Matarraña/Matarranya

Some of the western municipalities that remained in Teruel Province, Aguaviva (Aiguaviva de Bergantes), Belmonte de San José (Bellmunt de Mesquí), La Cañada de Verich (La Canyada de Beric), La Cerollera (La Sorollera), La Codoñera (La Codonyera), La Ginebrosa and Torrevelilla (La Torre de Vilella) were later segregated from Matarranya and included in the Bajo Aragón comarca.

This former northern territory, that included the municipalities of Fayón (Faió del Matarranya), Maella and Fabara (Favara del Matarranya), is now the eastern end of the Bajo Aragón-Caspe/Baix Aragó-Casp comarca.

Mijares River

This river is the main source of irrigation water for agriculture in the Plana Baixa comarca.

Millars

Millars or Millares town in the comarca of Canal de Navarrés, Valencian Community

Mollo

Molló, town and municipality in the comarca of Ripollès in Girona, Catalonia, Spain

Paprika

The two Spanish varieties of paprika, known in Spain as "pimentón" come from the Comarca de la Vera in Cáceres province and a variety from Murcia region, both of which were introduced from the Americas, where they originate, by local monks some time in the 1500s.

Puebla de Sanabria

It is the economic and political centre of the comarca of Sanabria.

Ribadavia

All the economic life of the comarca of the Ribeiro has centered on, since the twelfth century, the vines first brought by the monks of Cluny who accompanied the first count of Galicia, Raymond of Burgundy.

Rock of the Three Kingdoms

The Penedo is located on the border between the village of Moimenta in the municipality of Vinhais, the municipality of A Mezquita in province of Ourense (Autonomous Community of Galicia) and the municipality of Hermisende in Senabria comarca of the province of Zamora (Autonomous Community of Castile and León).

San Martín de Valderaduey

San Martín de Valderaduey is a municipality located in the Sanabria comarca, province of Zamora, Castile and León, Spain.

San Miguel de Salinas

Located between Torrevieja and Murcia, San Miguel de Salinas is the highest town in the comarca.

Senabria

The Sanabria comarca is one of the few areas of Western Europe with a sizeable population of wild wolves, which live in the Sierra de la Culebra mountain range.

Torrelavega

The name of the comarca, Valle del Besaya is derived from the Astur-Leonese Bisalia, which in turn derives from the Celtic, Bis-salia (the second Salia or Saja) from the two rivers that flow through the city.

Transport in Barcelona

In 2004, however, two new tram systems were introduced: Trambaix (taking its name from the Baix Llobregat comarca, the western part of the metropolitan area), and the Trambesòs, from the river Besòs which runs through the eastern part).

Treviño

The earliest surviving written record of the comarca Rigo de Ivita is in a document from 1025, the Reja de San Millán from the Cartulary of San Millán de la Cogolla.

After the comarca was conquered in 1199–1200 by Alfonso VIII of Castile, it retained the name of Ivita, Ibidam, or Uda and continued to be identified as a specific part of the land of Álava, as is clearly indicated in De rebus Hispaniae by archbishop Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada.

Vegueria

8th region, the capital was Lleida and the comarques: les Garrigues, la Noguera, l'Urgell, la Segarra and el Segrià (el Pla d'Urgell, newly created in 1987, was back then included in this region).

Viella

Vielha e Mijaran, capital of the Aran Valley comarca in Catalonia, Spain.


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