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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 ...
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] 1490 – Given the status of a town by Ferdinand II. [2] 1662 – San Nicolás de Bari church built. [3] 1709 – Siege of Alicante by French forces. [1]
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
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 ...
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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 .