Villarrubia de los Ojos explained

Villarrubia de los Ojos
Settlement Type:Municipality
Pushpin Map:Spain Castile-La Mancha#Spain
Pushpin Relief:1
Pushpin Label Position:left
Coordinates:39.2167°N -39°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Spain
Subdivision Type1:Autonomous community
Subdivision Name1:Castilla–La Mancha
Subdivision Type2:Province
Subdivision Name2:Ciudad Real
Area Total Km2:281.86
Elevation M:624
Population Density Km2:auto
Population Demonym:Villarrubiero, Villarrubiera
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Postal Code:13670

Villarrubia de los Ojos is a municipality of Spain located in the province of Ciudad Real, Castilla–La Mancha. The municipality spans across a total area of 281.86 km2 and, as of 1 January 2020, it has a registered population of 9,762.[1]

Geography

The Ojos del Guadiana are located within the Villarrubia de los Ojos municipal territory.[2] They are the source of the Guadiana river, the fourth longest river of the Iberian peninsula. There's also a National Park, the Tablas de Daimiel National Park located in the Tablas de Daimiel wetlands, shared with the neighbouring municipality, Daimiel.

The landforms of Villarrubia de los Ojos are mountainous in the north and flat in the south. The weather is quite strong with very cold winters and very hot summers. There are some mountains over 1,200 metres and the flat zone is at 550 metres above sea level in the Spanish central plateau.

History

Control over the territory passed from the Order of St. John of Jerusalem to the Order of Calatrava on the wake of the 1212 Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa. The demarcation of the area in the concord of 1232 confirmed the Calatravan control of Villarrubia.[3]

Together with Aldea del Rey, Almagro, Bolaños and Daimiel, Villarrubia was one of the five towns of the Campo de Calatrava. By the end of the middle ages, Villarrubia, like the rest of the Campo de Calatrava, featured a quite large mudéjar population. In 1502, the Catholic Monarchs granted local moriscos from Villarrubia (and the wider Campo) tax exemptions, as if they were for all legal purposes old christians. Tightly assimilated into the local society, the moriscos from Villarrubia fiercely refused their decreed expulsion, and the local lord, the (and President of the Council of Portugal), lobbied in order to curb the impact of the measure. Following the two expulsions from 1611 and 1612, most of the expelled moriscos were able to return to Villarrubia.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital. Datos del Registro de Entidades Locales. 19 May 2021.
  2. http://www.bibliotecaspublicas.es/villarrubiadelosojos/imagenes/contenido10570_8.pdf Importancia de los humedales en Villarrubia
  3. Web site: Estudio Socioeconómico del Campo de Calatrava Histórico. Diputación Provincial de Ciudad Real. 19 May 2021.

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