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14 unusual facts about Tudela


Alonso de Aragón

In 1512, he was in command of the troops that conquered Tudela in the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre.

Count Cassius

At the time of the Muslim arrival and after, Cassius ruled an area comprising Tudela, Tarazona, Borja, and, probably, Ejea.

El Gran Show

Roberto Martínez Vera-Tudela withdrew from the competition after five judgments due to a severe leg injury.

Ezmel de Ablitas

He was the son of Don Juceph; and was born in the village of Ablitas, near Tudela, from which place he derived his name.

Ibn Shaprut

Shem-Tob ben Isaac Shaprut of Tudela (שם טוב אבן שפרוט) (born at Tudela in the middle of the 14th century) was a Spanish Jewish philosopher, physician, and polemicist.

Juan O'Neylle

He is best known as one of the commanders during the Spanish defeat at the Battle of Tudela.

This bold attack forced the occupying French forces to abandon Tudela and O'Neylle was personally responsible for destroying a French column in the area around Nardués.

This engagement was to become known as the disastrous Battle of Tudela.

Lemoniz Nuclear Power Plant

On 3 June 1979, the anti-nuclear activist Gladys del Estal from Donostia died after being hit by a bullet from the police force Guardia Civil during a demonstration in Tudela (Navarra) on the international day of action against nuclear power.

Musa ibn Musa ibn Qasi

In response to attacks on the lands of his half-brother, Íñigo Arista, and the expulsion of kinsman Abd al-Yabbar ibn Qasi by the brothers Abd Allah and Amir ibn Kalayb, governors respectively of Zaragoza and Tudela, Musa and Íñigo rose in rebellion against emir Abd ar-Rahman II.

Our Lady of Good Success

Soon, as its popularity and devotion spread, the image was replicated in several places in Spain: Orduña, La Puebla de Gordon, Tudela, Abla, among others.

Tudela to Bilbao Railway

The Tudela to Bilbao Railway (Spanish: Ferrocarril Tudela de Navarra a Bilbao) is a Spanish railway from Tudela, Navarre to Bilbao.

Tudela, Cebu

Roman Catholics are dominant in the town and annually celebrate the fiesta of parish patron Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception on December 8.

William of Tudela

According to his own account in the first lines of his poem, William was born in Tudela in Navarre (Spain).


Francisco Tudela

Tudela was director of the Universidad Católica's Institute of International Studies (IDEI).

History of the Jews in Tudela

Other Rabbis of Tudela are known: Joshua ibn Shuaib, author of sermons,kabbalist and student of Rabbi Solomon ibn Aderet who flourished in the 14th century; Joel ibn Shu'aib, author of sermons and Bible commentaries; and Chasdai ben Solomon, who flourished in the 15th century.

Javier Ros

Being signed at the age of only 12, he travelled regularly by taxi from Tudela to the club's training facilities, until eventually moving to a school in San Sebastián.

João Maria Tudela

Tudela worked first for the insurance company Companhia de Seguros Império and then in Shell, where he remained for a decade as a sales manager.

João Soares de Paiva

He held lands in northern Portugal near the falls of the river Paiva and also in Aragon, near Monzón, Tudela, and Pamplona, near the border with Navarre, as fiefs of the King of Aragon.

Josh Tudela

After a brief stint with LA-based amateur side Doxa Italia, Tudela travelled to Romania for a trial with former European champions Steaua Bucharest in January 2010.

Rotrou III, Count of Perche

According to the Chronicle of San Juan de la Peña, Rotrou took part in the conquests of Zaragoza (1118) and Tudela (1119), but this account has been shown to be apocryphal.

Tudela to Bilbao Railway

After the Northern Railway (Compañía del Norte) planned a railway from Madrid to Bilbao, bypassing Tudela, it was decided to build a railway to Bilbao and outline permission was granted in 1856.