Almodóvar del Campo
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Almodóvar del Campo is a municipality of Spain, located in the province of Ciudad Real, autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha.[1] Featuring a total area of 1.208,25 km2,[1] it is the largest municipality in the region and one of the largest municipalities in Spain.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn As of 1 January 2020, it had a population of 5,983.[1]
Geography
It lies some 14 km S.S.W. of the provincial capital, on the northern side of the Sierra de Alcudia. The city lies at about 669 metres above mean sea level.[2]
History
The former settlement of Sisapo has been identified as the La Bienvenida archaeological site, which is located near the hamlet of the same name.Template:Sfn The foundation mark has been pushed back to the late-8th to early-7th centuries BC.Template:Sfn There is doubt on whether Sisapo was an Oretani city, although Plinius presented it as a Turduli city.Template:Sfn Sisapo thrived during the Roman era on the basis of the exploitation of cinnabar, a mercury ore.Template:Sfn The mines decreased in activity by the late-2nd to early-3rd centuries AD.Template:Sfn
The etymological origin of Almodóvar is the Arabic al-mudawwar, meaning 'the round (one)'.Template:Sfn In the mid-12th century, the forces of Munio Alfonso handed a blow to the Saracen forces of Texufin in the plains of Almodóvar.Template:Sfn
Part of the Order of Calatrava's dominion in the Meseta Sur, the Campo de Calatrava, Almódovar became the headquarters of one of the order's largest encomiendas, and its economy thrived throughout the late middle ages thanks to the pastures.Template:Sfn Almodóvar celebrated two fairs (created towards 1260), which eventually became a weekly open market from 1376 onward.Template:Sfn Over the late middle ages, Almodóvar had minorities of judeoconversos, mudéjares and foreigners (Genoese, Portuguese, Flemish and French).Template:Sfn Created towards 1456, in the context of the Calatravan interests to guarantee safety from banditry in the area as well as to curb the influence of the Hermandad de Ciudad Real, the so-called Santa Hermandad Vieja de Almodóvar del Campo came to exert judicial and policial powers in the area for centuries.Template:Sfn
On the eve of the 1855 desamortización, the municipality of Almodóvar had 78,892.55 hectares of publicly-owned monte.Template:Sfn All of them were privatized between 1896 and 1897.Template:Sfn
The mining of Almodóvar's oil shale resources fostered the 20th-century industrial development of neighbouring Puertollano.Template:Sfn
Notable people from Almodóvar del Campo include Mercédès Legrand.[3]
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