Mengíbar
Guadalquivir river and the town of Mengíbar behind
Flag of Mengíbar
Official seal of Mengíbar
Mengíbar is located in Province of Jaén (Spain)
Mengíbar
Mengíbar
Location in the Province of Jaén
Mengíbar is located in Andalusia
Mengíbar
Mengíbar
Mengíbar (Andalusia)
Mengíbar is located in Spain
Mengíbar
Mengíbar
Mengíbar (Spain)
Coordinates: 37°58′06″N 03°48′32″W / 37.96833°N 3.80889°W / 37.96833; -3.80889
CountrySpain
Autonomous
community
Andalusia
ProvinceJaén
Area
  Total62.34 km2 (24.07 sq mi)
Elevation
323 m (1,060 ft)
Population
 (2018)[1]
  Total9,927
  Density160/km2 (410/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

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]

History

Lying on the point where the Guadalbullón 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. "Datos del Registro de Entidades Locales". Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  3. Moreno Padilla, María Isabel; Lechuga Chica, Miguel Ángel; Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, Mario; Rueda Galán, Carmen; Castuera Bravo, Carolina; Bellón Ruiz, Juan Pedro (2023). "Iliturgi, from oppidum to civitas. Archaeological methodology for the investigation of an urban transformation process". Les agglomérations dans le monde celtique et ses marges. Nouvelles approches et perspectives de recherche, Pessac, Ausonius Éditions, collection. doi:10.46608/nemesis1.9782356135285.11.
  4. 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. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca. 24. ISSN 0213-2060.
  5. Alcázar Hernández, Eva María. "Formación y articulación de un concejo fronterizo: Jaén en el Siglo XIII". Arqueología y Territorio Medieval. Jaén: UJA Editorial. 10 (2): 271–272, 278. doi:10.17561/aytm.v10i2.1561. ISSN 1134-3184.
  6. 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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