Cobeja is a municipality located in the

province of Toledo Toledo () is a Province (Spain), province of central Spain, in the western part of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha. It is bordered by the provinces of Madrid Province, Madrid, Cuenca Province (Spai ...

, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2006 census ( INE), the municipality has a population of 2047 inhabitants.

History

Alfonso VI Alphons (Latinized ''Alphonsus'', ''Adelphonsus'', or ''Adefonsus'') is a male given name recorded from the 8th century (Alfonso I of Asturias, r. 739–757) in the Christian successor states of the Visigothic Kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula. I ...

gave the population of Cubeixa in 1086, along with other territories to the church Santa Maria de Toledo, following the recapture of the city. Was repopulated in 1155 with 18 inhabitants, and in 1159, the council of Toledo donates three quarters of the village of Alameda at the end of Cobeja. In the list of rents received in 1232 the Cathedral of Toledo is mentioned Couexa. The reviews that appear in the Mozarabic documents of the time there is the difficulty of distinguishing Cobeja of Cobisa because Arabic is written in the same way. Ayuntamiento Cobeja

Location

The town is situated on a plain of the county of

La Sagra La Sagra is a region in central Spain lying between the cities of Madrid and Toledo. In a wider sense, it includes municipalities belonging to both the south of the Community of Madrid and the north of the province of Toledo. In a more restricted ...

and adjoining populations Pantoja, Alameda de la Sagra,

Villaseca de la Sagra Villaseca de la Sagra is a municipality located in the province of Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2006 census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calcu ...

and Villaluenga de la Sagra, all of

Toledo Toledo most commonly refers to: * Toledo, Spain, a city in Spain * Province of Toledo, Spain * Toledo, Ohio, a city in the United States Toledo may also refer to: Places Belize * Toledo District * Toledo Settlement Bolivia * Toledo, Or ...

Administration

List of mayors since the democratic elections of 1979

Demography

The following table shows the evolution of population between 1996 and 2006 according to data from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE).

Monuments

To highlight the Church of San Juan Bautista and the water source, dating from 1702

Festivities

* 20 January: Saint Sebastian * Third weekend of September: Festivities in honor of the Virgen del Carmen

References

{{authority control Municipalities in the Province of Toledo