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Coordinates: 41°55′59″N1°23′40″W / 41.93306°N 1.39444°W / 41.93306; -1.39444 Coordinates: 41°55′59″N1°23′40″W / 41.93306°N 1.39444°W / 41.93306; -1.39444
Country Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
Autonomous community Flag of Aragon.svg  Aragon
Province Zaragoza
Municipality Novillas
Area
  Total25 km2 (10 sq mi)
Population
 (2018) [1]
  Total540
  Density22/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]

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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). University of Navarra. LXX (142): 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)