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7 unusual facts about Orihuela


Francisco Bouligny

At the age of 10, he was sent to a boy's school founded by the bishop of Orihuela, from which he graduated in 1750 and joined the family import-export business.

Miguel Hernández

Miguel Hernández Gilabert (30 October 1910, Orihuela – 28 March 1942, Alicante) was a 20th-century Spanish poet and playwright associated with the Generation of '27 movement and the Generation of '36 movement.

Miguel Hernández University of Elche

In Orihuela, there are two schools and five UMH departments distributed between two university locations (Desamparados and Salesas), where technical and social science education, respectively, are offered.

The UMH offers Bachelor’s degrees, Master’s and PhD programs adapted to the European Higher Education Area in the fields of the arts, experimental and technical sciences, engineering, and health and social sciences at its four university campuses (Elche -main administration offices-, Altea, Orihuela and Sant Joan d'Alacant).

Orihuela

The Spanish poet Miguel Hernández was born in this city, which shares a campus with the University Miguel Hernández.

In 1737 Alicante, Elche, Monforte, Jijona, Villajoyosa, Agost, Busot, San Juan or Muchamiel became independent from the province of Orihuela, forming the one of Alicante.

San Miguel de Salinas

The area has always been connected to the Orihuela district but in 1836 the town's urban area was separated from it and in 1955 the municipal boundary was extended into the country to form an imaginary triangle between the Pedrera Reservoir, the Torrevieja lagoon and La Peña del Águila.


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Algueña

In the administrative reform carried out by the Bourbons, it remained equally included in Orihuela’s district of corregidor until 1833, the year in which the current provincial system was established.

Óscar Malherbe de León

The drugs were supplied by the Rodriguez Orihuela brothers of the Cali Cartel and arrived in clandestine runaways in San Fernando and Matamoros, Tamaulipas.

Paraguay national rugby union team

In France, Cesar Meilike, Jatar Fernandez, Fabio Franco and Emiliano Arnau played for Strasbourg, and José Otaño and Joel Orihuela for US CENAC, at Fédérale 2, and Freddy Lares and Miguel Jara for Houilles Carrilies at Fédérale 3.

Region of Murcia

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 Orihuela, Lorca, Mula and Chinchilla, Spain.

Salva Chamorro

Salvador Pérez Martínez, aka Salva Chamorro (born 8 May 1990 in Orihuela, Vega Baja, Valencian Community), is a Spanish footballer who plays for UE Llagostera as a striker.

Treaty of Orihuela

It suggests the Muslims succeeded in a peaceful take-over of southern Spain, specifically Orihuela, Valentilla, Alicante, Mula, Bigastro, Ello, and Lorca.


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