Botorrita

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Coordinates: 41°30′54″N1°1′55.20″W / 41.51500°N 1.0320000°W / 41.51500; -1.0320000
Country Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
Autonomous community Flag of Aragon.svg  Aragon
Province Zaragoza
Comarca Zaragoza
Government
 • MayorJosé María Castillo Vicente
Area
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19.8 km2 (7.6 sq mi)
Elevation
394 m (1,293 ft)
Population
 (2018) [1]
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498
 • Density25/km2 (65/sq mi)
Demonym Botorritanos
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)

Botorrita is a municipality of 574 residents located in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain.

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Botorrita is known for the archeological artefacts found there, such as the Botorrita plaques.

The Romans knew it as Contrebia Belaisca (the first probably Celtiberian from *kom- + *treb(h) "the gathering (place)"). [2]

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References

  1. ↑ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
  2. ↑ Beltrán Lloris, Francisco (2002): (Review of F. Villar, Mª. A. Díaz, M. Mª. Medrano y C. Jordán, El IV bronce de Botorrita (Contrebia Belaisca): arqueología y lingüística, Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca 2001, 226 pp.) in Palaeohispanica (revista sobre lengua y culturas de la Hispania antigua), vol. 2, Zaragoza, pp. 381–393. ISSN   1578-5386.
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