Novillas

Novillas
municipality
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Coordinates: 41°55′59″N1°23′40″W / 41.93306°N 1.39444°W / 41.93306; -1.39444
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Aragon
Province	Zaragoza
Municipality	Novillas
Area
• Total	25 km2 (10 sq mi)
Population  (2018) [1]
• Total	540
• Density	22/km2 (56/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Novillas is a municipality located in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 667 inhabitants.

In the 12the century, the Grand Master of the Knights Templar Arnold of Torroja organized a group of intellectuals who wrote the Cartulary of Knights Templar of the Preceptory of Novillas, a collection of 444 manuscripts describing the corporative identity, the rights and the properties of the order in a tensioned area of border across the three main kingdoms of Spain (Aragon, Castile and Pamplona). In the former islamic Valley of the middle Ebro, the Templar's area of influence developed around the encomienda of Novillas. ^[2]

See also

• List of municipalities in Zaragoza

References

1. Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
2. Pavón Benito, Julia (2018). "El Cartulario del Temple de la encomienda de Novillas (siglo XII). Cuestiones sobre la primera andadura de la Orden en el valle medio del Ebro" (PDF). Hispania Sacra (in Spanish). LXX (142). University of Navarra: 440. doi: 10.3989/hs.2018.029 . ISSN   0018-215X. OCLC   7955139368. Archived from the original on April 30, 2019 – via DOAJ.{{cite journal}}: External link in |via= (help)