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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.
By the last years of the 6th century BC, the rival armies of Carthage and Rome began to invade and fight for control of the Iberian Peninsula. The Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca carried out his Iberian conquests in 237–228 BC, and established the fortified settlement of Ákra Leukḗ, or Akra Leuce, [10] (Greek: Ἀκρα Λευκή, meaning "White Citadel" or "White Promontory"), [11 ...
1265 – Colonized mainly by Catalan population during an ongoing military campaign led by James I of Aragon. Catalan became traditional language in Alicante since then until nowadays. 1296/1304 – Alicante becomes part of the Kingdom of Valencia per Treaty of Torrellas. [1] [2] 1331 – Attempted siege of Alicante by Moorish forces. [1]
Quesada is a Spanish municipality in the province of Jaén. It is in the Alto Guadalquivir comarca and its inhabitants are called quesadenses or quesadeños. It has an area of 328.7 km² and 5483 inhabitants according to the 2016 census. Its population has decreased in the last half of the twentieth century. In 1950, 12,224 quesadeños were ...
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
Lucentum (Ancient Greek: Λούκεντον, Loúkenton), [1] called Lucentia by Pomponius Mela, [2] is the Roman predecessor of the city of Alicante, Spain. Particularly, it refers to the archaeological site in which the remains of this ancient settlement lie, at a place known as El Tossal de Manises , in the neighborhood of Albufereta .
Salazar y Acha, Jaime de; Masnata y de Quesada, David (1990). "Precisiones y nuevos datos sobre el entorno familiar de Alfonso X el Sabio fundador de Ciudad Real" (PDF). Cuadernos de Estudios Manchegos (in Spanish). Instituto de Estudios Manchegos (20): 210–231. ISSN 0526-2623. Álvarez Álvarez, César (1981).
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada y Rivera, also spelled as Ximénez and De Quezada, (Spanish: [gonˈθalo xiˈmeneθ ðe keˈsaða]; 1509 [1] – 16 February 1579) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador in northern South America, territories currently known as Colombia.