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Alcorisa is a municipality in the
province of Teruel Teruel ( Catalan: ''Terol'' ) is a province of Aragon, in the northeast of Spain. The capital is Teruel. It is bordered by the provinces of Tarragona, Castellón, Valencia (including its exclave Rincón de Ademuz), Cuenca, Guadalajara, and Z ...
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Aragon Aragon ( , ; Spanish and ; ) is an autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon. In northeastern Spain, the Aragonese autonomous community comprises three provinces of Spain, ...
,
Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...
. According to the 2018
census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...
the municipality has a population of 3,276 inhabitants. Alcorisa is located right by the N-211 road, to the SW of Calanda. This town is part of the
Ruta del tambor y el bombo The ''Ruta del Tambor y el Bombo'' () is an Easter celebration that takes place in nine towns in the province of Teruel, southeastern Aragon, Spain. These towns include Albalate del Arzobispo, Alcañiz, Alcorisa, Andorra, Teruel, Andorra, Calanda ...
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History

During the
Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War () was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republican faction (Spanish Civil War), Republicans and the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War), Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the Left-wing p ...
, the town participated in the Spanish revolution and was collectivised by the CNT.


See also

* Bajo Aragón *
List of municipalities in Teruel This is a list of the municipalities in the province of Teruel in the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. There are 236 municipalities in the province. List See also * Geography of Spain * List of cities in Spain * List of Aragonese comarcas ...


References


External links


Bajo Aragón ComarcaAlcorisa site
* Municipalities in the Province of Teruel Maestrazgo {{Teruel-geo-stub