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Madrid (/ m ə ˈ d r ɪ d / ⓘ mə-DRID; Spanish: [maˈðɾið] ⓘ) [n. 1] is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million [10] inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its monocentric metropolitan area is the ...
Madrid es un municipio y una ciudad de España. La localidad, con categoría histórica de villa, 9 es la capital del Estado 10 y de la Comunidad de Madrid.
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The primitive urban nucleus of Madrid (Majriṭ) was founded in the late 9th century (from 852 to 886) as a citadel erected on behalf of Muhammad I, the Cordobese emir, on the relatively steep left bank of the Manzanares. Originally it was largely a military outpost for the quartering of troops. Similarly to other fortresses north of the Tagus, Madri...
Philip II (1527–1598), moved the court to Madrid in 1561. Although he made no official declaration, the seat of the court became the de facto capital. Unlikely to have more than 20,000 inhabitants by the time, the city grew approaching the 100,000 mark by the end of the 16th century. The population plummeted (reportedly reduced to a half) during th...
At the time the reign of Isabella II started, the city was still enclosed behind its walls, featuring a relatively slow demographic growth as well as very high population density. After the 1833 administrative reforms for the country devised by Javier de Burgos(including the configuration of the current province of Madrid), Madrid was to become the...
Benefiting from prosperity in the 1980s, Spain's capital city has consolidated its position as the leading economic, cultural, industrial, educational and technological center of the Iberianpeninsula. The relative decline in population since 1975 reverted in the 1990s, with the city recovering a population of roughly 3 million inhabitants by the en...
Informational notesCitationsBibliographyMadrid (pronounced: “mah-drid or /məˈdrɪd/) is the capital and largest city of Spain. Madrid is in the middle of Spain, in the Community of Madrid . The Community is a large area that includes the city as well as small towns and villages outside the city. 7 million people live in the Community.
Madrid (prononcé : / m a. d ʁ i d / [1] Écouter ; en espagnol : [m a ˈ ð ɾ i ð] [2]) est la capitale et la plus grande ville d'Espagne. Située dans la partie centrale du royaume, elle est également la capitale et la ville la plus peuplée de la communauté de Madrid.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Madrid, Spain. Prior to 17th century. Prehistory: Quaternary period or Lower Paleolithic - First archaeological signs of human occupation. Roman period: mansion or staging-post (Miacum) established. 5th century AD – archaeological remains reported in 2007 indicate Visigoth occupation.
The architecture of Madrid has preserved the look and feel of many of its historic neighbourhoods and streets, even though Madrid possesses a modern infrastructure.
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