Torrijos, Spain
Template:Main otherScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Main other Torrijos is a municipality in the province of Toledo, Castilla–La Mancha, Spain.[1] As of 1 January 2022, it had a registered population of 13,678.[1] The municipality spans across a total area of 17.34 km2.[1]
History
A Christian army on its way to Toledo took control over the place on behalf of Alfonso VI in 1085, thereby becoming a realengo ('royal demesne').[2][3]
Torrijos was gifted to the archbishop of Toledo in 1214, in reward for the latter's help in the Battle of Navas de Tolosa,Template:Sfn ensuingly becoming a dominion of the Mitre of Toledo.[4] Torrijos enjoyed a sizeable Jewish community, which sided with the losing side in the Castilian Civil War and which also suffered, although to a lesser extent than other locations, the 1391 pogroms.Template:Sfn In the context of the 1449 urban revolts in Toledo, a Toledan army under Pedro Girón sacked Torrijos in 1450.Template:Sfn Torrijos was bought away from the Archdiocese of Toledo in 1482, and it was incorporated to the Estate of Maqueda, also becoming a town.Template:Sfn
Demographics
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Notable people
- Félix Almagro (1907–1939), bullfighter, first to be killed by a bull at Las Ventas
See also
References
External links
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