Valdemeca
Valdemeca is a municipality in the province of Cuenca, in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, Spain.
The municipality has an area is 70 km² and its climate is continental. The geographical coordinates of Valdemeca are: latitude, 40° 13′59″N; longitude, 1° 43′59″W and altitude, 1387 meters. As of 2003, the municipality had a population of 101 (56 male, 45 female). The density is only 1.4 people/km². The municipality has lost 13.6% of its population in the last decade (1996-2005).
The mayor of Valdemeca is Mr. Moisés Heras García of the party Izquierda Unida de Castilla-La Mancha. Valdemeca is one of the few municipalities of Spain with "one-man municipal council" (i.e. small municipalities with an elected mayor but no municipal council as such) where Izquierda Unida has succeeded in getting its candidate elected.
In the 2004 Spanish General Election, the Partido Popular got 39 votes (61.9%), the Partido Socialista Obrero Español got 17 (27.0%) and Izquierda Unida de Castilla-La Mancha got 7 (11.1%).
The municipality has an area is 70 km² and its climate is continental. The geographical coordinates of Valdemeca are: latitude, 40° 13′59″N; longitude, 1° 43′59″W and altitude, 1387 meters. As of 2003, the municipality had a population of 101 (56 male, 45 female). The density is only 1.4 people/km². The municipality has lost 13.6% of its population in the last decade (1996-2005).
The mayor of Valdemeca is Mr. Moisés Heras García of the party Izquierda Unida de Castilla-La Mancha. Valdemeca is one of the few municipalities of Spain with "one-man municipal council" (i.e. small municipalities with an elected mayor but no municipal council as such) where Izquierda Unida has succeeded in getting its candidate elected.
In the 2004 Spanish General Election, the Partido Popular got 39 votes (61.9%), the Partido Socialista Obrero Español got 17 (27.0%) and Izquierda Unida de Castilla-La Mancha got 7 (11.1%).
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Anatomically modern humans first arrived in the Iberian Peninsula around 42,000 years ago. The ancient Iberian and Celtic tribes, along with other pre-Roman peoples, dwelled the territory maintaining contacts with foreign Mediterranean cultures. The Roman conquest and colonization of the peninsula (Hispania) ensued, bringing the Romanization of the population. Receding of Western Roman imperial authority ushered in the migration of different non-Roman peoples from Central and Northern Europe with the Visigoths as the dominant power in the peninsula by the fifth century. In the early eighth century, most of the peninsula was conquered by the Umayyad Caliphate, and during early Islamic rule, Al-Andalus became a dominant peninsular power centered in Córdoba. Several Christian kingdoms emerged in Northern Iberia, chief among them León, Castile, Aragon, Portugal, and Navarre made an intermittent southward military expansion, known as Reconquista, repelling the Islamic rule in Iberia, which culminated with the Christian seizure of the Emirate of Granada in 1492. Jews and Muslims were forced to choose between conversion to Catholicism or expulsion, and eventually the converts were expelled through different royal decrees.
Currency / Language
ISO | Currency | Symbol | Significant figures |
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EUR | Euro | € | 2 |
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EU | Basque language |
CA | Catalan language |
GL | Galician language |
OC | Occitan language |
ES | Spanish language |