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Unadapted borrowing from Spanish Alcalá de Henares. Pronunciation [edit] IPA : /ˌalkaˈlɑː deɪ ɛˈnɑːɹɛs/ IPA : /ˌɑlkəˈlɑ deɪ həˈnɑɹeɪs/ Proper noun [edit] Alcalá de Henares. A city in the Community of Madrid, Spain. Coordinate terms [edit] Complute (ancient name of the town) Translations [edit]
Alcalá de Henares. / 40.467°N 3.367°W / 40.467; -3.367. Alcalá de Henares is a city in the Community of Madrid, Spain. It is thirty kilometres from Madrid. It has about 200,000 people. There is a university. Miguel de Cervantes, an important Spanish writer, the author of the "Don Quixote", was born there. ↑ Municipal Register of ...
- 1st century BC
- Spain
Alcalá de Henares, city, Madrid provincia (province) and comunidad autónoma (autonomous community), central Spain. Known under the Romans as Complutum, the city was destroyed in ad 1000 and rebuilt in 1038 by the Moors, who called it Al-Qalʿah al-Nahr. It was reconquered in 1088 by Alfonso VI and.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Archiepiscopal Palace of Alcalá de Henares (Spanish: Palacio Arzobispal de Alcalá de Henares) is a palace located in Alcalá de Henares, in the Community of Madrid, Spain. It is now home to the Diocese of Alcalá de Henares .
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- Cultural
- University and Historic Precinct of Alcalá de Henares
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Tiene una población de 199 184 habitantes ( INE 2023), y una superficie de 87,99 km². 3 La comarca de Alcalá, que hace las funciones de su área metropolitana, agrupa a cerca de 800 000 habitantes y una superficie de 1421 km². Está situada en la cuenca del río Henares, al este de la provincia.
The Diocese of Alcalá de Henares ( Latin: Compluten (sis)) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Spain. Its episcopal see is Alcalá de Henares. The diocese is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Madrid . History.
The Alcalá de Henares Cathedral (also called as Cathedral of St Justus and St Pastor in Alcalá de Henares) ( Spanish: Catedral de los Santos Niños Justo y Pastor de Alcalá de Henares) is a Catholic cathedral in Alcalá de Henares, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1904. [1] Cover of the Cathedral. Cathedral facade. Church tower.
