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Ciudad Quesada is a district in the municipality of Rojales in the Province of Alicante, Spain. It has a population of 16,583 people ( INE 2013 [ 1 ] ). It is located in the southern area of Rojales, 6 km from Mediterranean sea.
An urban nucleus was established on the slopes of Mount Benacantil, where have been found the remains of a Late Roman settlement for which the same Romanised name Lacant was used, that is, a relict place name, which would evolve into the Arabic form Laqant, mentioned in the pact of Theodemir (713) and the predecessor of the modern name Alicante.
Quesada is a Spanish toponymic surname originating from the town of Quesada in Jaén, Andalucia.It was originally the surname of the nobility of the town of Quesada. It is also briefly mentioned in the tale of Don Quixote as a possible alternate surname for the title character.
This is a list of cities and towns whose names were officially changed at one or more points in history. It does not include gradual changes in spelling that took place over long periods of time. see also: Geographical renaming, List of names of European cities in different languages, and List of renamed places in the United States
Alicante (Alacant in Valencian) is a province in the autonomous community of Valencia, Spain, that is divided into 141 municipalities. As of the 2023 [update] Spanish census, the province is the 5th largest by population , with 1,952,291 inhabitants, [ 1 ] and the 41st largest by land area, spanning 5,817 km 2 (2,246 sq mi). [ 2 ]
Quesada, Spain, a town in the province of Jaén, in Andalusia; Ciudad Quesada, Alicante, a town in the province of Alicante, in Valencia, Spain; Quesada, Costa Rica, a city and district in the canton of San Carlos in the province of Alajuela; Quesada, Guatemala, a municipality
In some cases the native meanings of a place name are wholly lost, despite guesses and theories, for example Tampa and Oregon. Place names in the United States tend to be more easily traceable to their origins, such as towns simply named after the founder or an important politician of the time, with no alterations except a simple suffix, like ...
The Roman forum of Lucentum. Currently, one can visit the archaeological site, which covers an area of some 30,000 m 2 (7.4 acres). The most noticeable features are the remains of the fortifying wall (including the foundations of the pre-Roman defensive towers), the baths, the forum, part of the Muslim necropolis, and a multitude of houses.