Huete, Spain

Huete, Spain
Municipality
Partial view of Huete town
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 40°08′51″N2°41′20″W / 40.14750°N 2.68889°W / 40.14750; -2.68889
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Castile-La Mancha
Province	Cuenca
Population  (2024) [1]
• Total	1,822
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Huete is a municipality in Cuenca, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It has a population of 2,097.

During the Spanish Civil War, the municipality was the location of a small hospital where Annie Murray served as one of the nurses. ^[2]

Historically, Huete was home to a prosperous Jewish community until the expulsion of the Jews. ^[3] From a case filed after the expulsion by a local Jewish converso , it is known that Huete had a synagogue, reportedly built by him at his own expense. ^[4]

Notable People

• Alonso Díaz de Montalvo (1405–1499), Castilian jurist, who was based in and died in Huete

References

1. Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
2. The biographical dictionary of Scottish women : from the earliest times to 2004 . Ewan, Elizabeth., Innes, Sue., Reynolds, Sian. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2006. pp.  199. ISBN   9780748626601. OCLC   367680960.
3. "Huete". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
4. Beinart, Haim (2001). The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain. Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. Vol. 1. Translated by Jeffrey M. Green. Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press. p. 79.