Navalmoral de la Mata (Navalmoral de la Mata)
Navalmoral de la Mata is a municipality of Spain located in the province of Cáceres, autonomous community of Extremadura. Attached to the traditional comarca of Campo Arañuelo, the municipality lies on central-western Iberia, in between the Tagus and Tiétar rivers. In 2016, the municipality had a population of 17,247 inhabitants.
The area of Navalmoral includes remains from the Prehistoric and Roman (villas, bridges, temples etc.) ages. Navalmoral was founded in the late 14th - early 15th century as a communication hub. It became an autonomous commune in the 19th century.
Navalmoral belongs to the natural comarca of Campo Arañuelo.
Communications (roads and bridges) were promoted during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera (the finishing of several works would linger a long time, though). Initially endorsed by local farmers, the latter removed their support to the regime after it failed to deliver on its promises, turning away from the dictator and ultimately also from the Monarchy, with the population overwhelmingly voting anti-monarchist candidates in the 1931 municipal elections that installed the Second Republic. La Vera and Guadalupe roads were constructed, as well as other less important roads.
In 1930 the Tobacco Fermentation Center (CNCFT) was promoted by locals, boosting the economy of Navalmoral and its comarca. Local anarchists took part of the country-wide December 1933 Anarchist insurrection in Spain.
On 21 July 1936, soon after the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, Navalmoral was seized by the Rebel forces after a swift combat.
Started in 1949, the Rosarito's Irrigation Plan had a remarkable impact on Navalmoral's economy and demography, notably it allowed the expansion of cotton and tobacco based local industries. Another public work of the 20th century was the construction of the Valdecañas Reservoir, which enabled exploitation of the Tagus river, providing significant new funds for both Navalmoral town and its comarca, and thus helping to slow down the 1960s decline in population. Consequently, new districts and schools were built, available running water improved and thanks to the Tiétar river, sewers and other infrastructure improvements were made.
After a period of prosperity the economy began to stagnate, but in 1972 work on the Almaraz Nuclear Power Plant started, which boosted Navalmoral's population and economy again, even though there had been some local opposition to the project.
After the 1979 municipal election, Tomás Yuste Mirón (UCD) was confirmed as Mayor of the municipality. Progress continued, thanks to a significant number of public works which enabled Navalmoral to become the main town in the Campo Arañuelo.
In 2015, Raquel Medina, from the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), became the new mayor
The area of Navalmoral includes remains from the Prehistoric and Roman (villas, bridges, temples etc.) ages. Navalmoral was founded in the late 14th - early 15th century as a communication hub. It became an autonomous commune in the 19th century.
Navalmoral belongs to the natural comarca of Campo Arañuelo.
Communications (roads and bridges) were promoted during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera (the finishing of several works would linger a long time, though). Initially endorsed by local farmers, the latter removed their support to the regime after it failed to deliver on its promises, turning away from the dictator and ultimately also from the Monarchy, with the population overwhelmingly voting anti-monarchist candidates in the 1931 municipal elections that installed the Second Republic. La Vera and Guadalupe roads were constructed, as well as other less important roads.
In 1930 the Tobacco Fermentation Center (CNCFT) was promoted by locals, boosting the economy of Navalmoral and its comarca. Local anarchists took part of the country-wide December 1933 Anarchist insurrection in Spain.
On 21 July 1936, soon after the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, Navalmoral was seized by the Rebel forces after a swift combat.
Started in 1949, the Rosarito's Irrigation Plan had a remarkable impact on Navalmoral's economy and demography, notably it allowed the expansion of cotton and tobacco based local industries. Another public work of the 20th century was the construction of the Valdecañas Reservoir, which enabled exploitation of the Tagus river, providing significant new funds for both Navalmoral town and its comarca, and thus helping to slow down the 1960s decline in population. Consequently, new districts and schools were built, available running water improved and thanks to the Tiétar river, sewers and other infrastructure improvements were made.
After a period of prosperity the economy began to stagnate, but in 1972 work on the Almaraz Nuclear Power Plant started, which boosted Navalmoral's population and economy again, even though there had been some local opposition to the project.
After the 1979 municipal election, Tomás Yuste Mirón (UCD) was confirmed as Mayor of the municipality. Progress continued, thanks to a significant number of public works which enabled Navalmoral to become the main town in the Campo Arañuelo.
In 2015, Raquel Medina, from the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), became the new mayor
Map - Navalmoral de la Mata (Navalmoral de la Mata)
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EUR | Euro | € | 2 |
| ISO | Language |
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| EU | Basque language |
| CA | Catalan language |
| GL | Galician language |
| OC | Occitan language |
| ES | Spanish language |
