Mengíbar

Mengíbar

Mengíbar

Municipality in Andalusia, Spain


Mengíbar is municipality of Spain belonging to the province of Jaén, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. The municipality has a total area of 62.34 km2 and, as of 1 January 2022, it has a registered population of 9,965.[2]

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History

Lying on the point where the Guadalbullón [es] flows into the Guadalquivir river and also close to the Guadalimar, the nearby Iberian oppidum of Illiturgi (Cerro de la Muela) was besieged and destroyed by Scipio Africanus in 206 BCE during the Second Punic War.[3]

Mengíbar was conquered by Ferdinand III of Castile together with other neighbouring fortified places as a part of the preliminary steps leading to the 1246 siege of Jaén.[4] It was a hamlet belonging to the land of Jaén in the lower middle ages.[5] It segregated from the land of Jaén in 1574.[6]

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References

  1. Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
  2. Castillo Armenteros, Juan Carlos; Alcázar Hernández, Eva María (2006). "La campiña del Alto Guadalquivir en la Baja Edad Media. La dinámica de un espacio fronterizo" [The Campiña of Upper Guadalquivir in the Late Middle Ages. The Dynamics of a Borderland Area]. Studia Historica. Historia Medieval. 24. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca. ISSN 0213-2060.
  3. Alcázar Hernández, Eva María. "Formación y articulación de un concejo fronterizo: Jaén en el Siglo XIII". Arqueología y Territorio Medieval. 10 (2). Jaén: UJA Editorial: 271–272, 278. doi:10.17561/aytm.v10i2.1561. ISSN 1134-3184.
  4. Ferrer Rodríguez, Amparo; Nieto Calmaestra, José Antonio; Camarero Bullón, Concepción (2000). "La organización territorial de la provincia de Jaén, 1750-2000: permanencia y cambio" (PDF). CT: Catastro. 39: 44. ISSN 1138-3488.



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