Mengíbar is
municipality
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The term ''municipality' ...
of Spain belonging to the
province of Jaén, in the autonomous community of
Andalusia
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. The municipality has a total area of 62.34 km
2 and, as of 1 January 2022, it has a registered population of 9,965.
History
Lying on the point where the flows into the
Guadalquivir river
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and also close to the
Guadalimar, the nearby Iberian
oppidum
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of
Illiturgi (Cerro de la Muela) was besieged and destroyed by
Scipio Africanus
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in 206 BCE during the
Second Punic War
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.
Mengíbar was conquered by
Ferdinand III of Castile
Ferdinand III (; 1199/120130 May 1252), called the Saint (''el Santo''), was King of Castile from 1217 and King of León from 1230 as well as King of Galicia from 1231. He was the son of Alfonso IX of León and Berengaria of Castile. Through his ...
together with other neighbouring fortified places as a part of the preliminary steps leading to the
1246 siege of Jaén. It was a hamlet belonging to the land of Jaén in the lower middle ages. It segregated from the land of Jaén in 1574.
Sports
*
CD Mengíbar (2008), association football club
See also
*
List of municipalities in Jaén
Jaén is a province in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain, which is divided into 97 municipalities. Spanish census, Jaén is the 27th largest of the 50 provinces by population, with inhabitants, and the 14th largest by land area, ...
References
Municipalities in the Province of Jaén (Spain)
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