La Carlota (Carlota, La)
La Carlota is a municipality of small settlements, in the southern half of Spain near Córdoba. In 2005 it had 11,488 inhabitants, and in 2018 just over 14,000, all living in a predominantly rural area measuring some 80 km2.
La Carlota is 30 km from the provincial capital city of Córdoba, and is governed as a province of that city. Yet the area has had a curious history, which means that it is today divided into 11 districts: the village municipality of La Carlota and ten smaller 'departments' or hamlets. These 'departments' are:
* First department: La Paz
* Second department: Los Algarbes
* Third department: Monte Alto
* Fourth department: Arrecife
* Fifth department: El Garabato
* Sixth department: La Chica Carlota. Its former name was Petit Carlota (1768).
* Seventh department: Las Pinedas
* Eighth department: El Rinconcillo
La Carlota is 30 km from the provincial capital city of Córdoba, and is governed as a province of that city. Yet the area has had a curious history, which means that it is today divided into 11 districts: the village municipality of La Carlota and ten smaller 'departments' or hamlets. These 'departments' are:
* First department: La Paz
* Second department: Los Algarbes
* Third department: Monte Alto
* Fourth department: Arrecife
* Fifth department: El Garabato
* Sixth department: La Chica Carlota. Its former name was Petit Carlota (1768).
* Seventh department: Las Pinedas
* Eighth department: El Rinconcillo
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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 |
ISO | Language |
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EU | Basque language |
CA | Catalan language |
GL | Galician language |
OC | Occitan language |
ES | Spanish language |