Abánades
Guadalajara · Castilla-La Mancha
Abánades is a municipality located in the province of Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2017 census (INE), the municipality had a population of 59 inhabitants and a population density of 1.5 people per square kilometer.
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History
In the tenth and eleventh centuries, Medinaceli (today a town in the province of Soria) became the military capital of the Central March due to its strategic importance as a defensive stronghold against the advance of the Christian kingdoms. The reconquest of Medinaceli that occurred in the year 1104, led by Alfonso VI, included the areas of Soria and Guadalajara in the north, and a portion of Teruel in addition to Abánades itself. The first documents from the municipality of Abánades from the fourteenth century classify Albánades as part of the jurisdiction of Medinaceli, which suggests that, in the past, the territory that the municipality now occupies used to belong to the city of Medinaceli when it was under Arab rule. The area was not repopulated until fifty years later.
There is no documentation of Abánades until the first year of the 12th century, when Peter I (the Cruel), King of Castile and León, commissioned the Becerro de las Behetrías de Castilla (a record of Castile's nobility [las Behetrías de Castilla] bound in calf skin [becerro]), to make a record of all the people who were within the domain of the Castile crown.
In more recent history, Abánades is notable for its role in the Spanish Civil War. In March 1938, after two years of fighting, the nationalist faction, intending to reach the Mediterranean and split the Republic's forces in two, initiated an attack in Aragon. To help the Eastern Army, Cipriano Mera went on the offensive in Guadalajara. In Abánades, Battalion 268 from San Fernando arrived from Renales, situating itself in Castile, which was not yet under Republican occupation, taking the furthest forward position of the Nationalists in the sector. After several intense days of combat, the front stabilized. The skirmish became known as the “Forgotten Battle,” one of the least-known battles in the history of the Civil War, due to taking over 7,000 casualties between both sides.
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Alcaldía: Ángel Jesús Mínguez Peco
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Alcaldía: Ángel Jesús Mínguez Peco
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How to get there
- 🚗 81 km from Guadalajara (about 57 min by car)
- 🚗 109 km from Alcalá de Henares (about 77 min by car)
- 🚗 145 km from Madrid (about 102 min by car)
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- ✈️ 128 km from Madrid-Barajas airport (about 90 min by car)
- ✈️ 185 km from Zaragoza airport (about 131 min by car)
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