Municipality in Andalusia, Spain
Mengíbar is
municipality of Spain belonging to the
province of Jaén , in the autonomous community of
Andalusia . The municipality has a total area of 62.34 km2 and, as of 1 January 2022, it has a registered population of 9,965.
[2]
History
Lying on the point where the
Guadalbullón [
es ] flows into the
Guadalquivir river and also close to the
Guadalimar , the nearby Iberian
oppidum of
Illiturgi (Cerro de la Muela) was besieged and destroyed by
Scipio Africanus in 206 BCE during the
Second Punic War .
[3]
Mengíbar was conquered by
Ferdinand III of Castile together with other neighbouring fortified places as a part of the preliminary steps leading to the
1246 siege of Jaén .
[4] It was a hamlet belonging to the land of Jaén in the lower middle ages.
[5] It segregated from the land of Jaén in 1574.
[6]
Sports
References
^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018 .
National Statistics Institute .
^
"Datos del Registro de Entidades Locales" .
Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital . Retrieved 29 November 2023 .
^ Moreno Padilla, María Isabel; Lechuga Chica, Miguel Ángel; Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, Mario; Rueda Galán, Carmen; Castuera Bravo, Carolina; Bellón Ruiz, Juan Pedro (2023).
"Iliturgi, from oppidum to civitas. Archaeological methodology for the investigation of an urban transformation process" .
Les agglomérations dans le monde celtique et ses marges. Nouvelles approches et perspectives de recherche, Pessac, Ausonius Éditions, collection .
doi :
10.46608/nemesis1.9782356135285.11 .
^ Castillo Armenteros, Juan Carlos; Alcázar Hernández, Eva María (2006).
"La campiña del Alto Guadalquivir en la Baja Edad Media. La dinámica de un espacio fronterizo" [The Campiña of Upper Guadalquivir in the Late Middle Ages. The Dynamics of a Borderland Area]. Studia Historica. Historia Medieval . 24 . Salamanca:
Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca .
ISSN
0213-2060 .
^ Alcázar Hernández, Eva María.
"Formación y articulación de un concejo fronterizo: Jaén en el Siglo XIII" . Arqueología y Territorio Medieval . 10 (2). Jaén:
UJA Editorial : 271–272, 278.
doi :
10.17561/aytm.v10i2.1561 .
ISSN
1134-3184 .
^ Ferrer Rodríguez, Amparo; Nieto Calmaestra, José Antonio; Camarero Bullón, Concepción (2000).
"La organización territorial de la provincia de Jaén, 1750-2000: permanencia y cambio" (PDF) . CT: Catastro . 39 : 44.
ISSN
1138-3488 .