Botorrita is a municipality of 574 residents located in the
province of Zaragoza
Zaragoza (), also called Saragossa in English,''Encyclopædia Britannica''Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)/ref> is a province of northern Spain, in the central part of the autonomous community of Aragon. Its capital is the city of Zaragoza, whic ...
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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, ...
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Botorrita is known for the archeological artefacts found there, such as the
Botorrita plaques.
The Romans knew it as Contrebia Belaisca (the first probably Celtiberian from *kom- + *treb(h) "the gathering (place)").
[Beltrán Lloris, Francisco (2002): (Review of F. Villar, Mª. A. Díaz, M. Mª. Medrano y C. Jordán, ''El IV bronce de Botorrita (Contrebia Belaisca): arqueología y lingüística'', Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca 2001, 226 pp.) in ''Palaeohispanica'' (revista sobre lengua y culturas de la Hispania antigua), vol. 2, Zaragoza, pp. 381–393. .]
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List of municipalities in Zaragoza
This is a list of the municipalities in the province of Zaragoza (Saragossa in English) in the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. There are 293 municipalities in the province. List
See also
*Geography of Spain
*List of cities in Spain
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References
External links
www.bandabotorrita.esAsociación Banda de Música de Botorrita "Jorge Aliaga"
Página sobre Botorrita de J.A. Cifuentes
Municipalities in the Province of Zaragoza
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