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Colmenar de Oreja | |
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Municipality | |
 City Hall. | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
_mapa.svg) Location of Colmenar de Oreja in Madrid | |
  Colmenar de Oreja Location in Spain | |
| Coordinates: 40°6′33″N 3°23′13″W / 40.10917°N 3.38694°W | |
| Country |  Spain |
| Autonomous community |  Madrid |
| Comarca | Las Vegas |
| Municipality | Colmenar de Oreja |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | David Moya Aguilar |
| Area | |
| • Total | 126.3 km2 (48.8 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 761 m (2,497 ft) |
| Population (2018)[1] | |
| • Total | 7,902 |
| • Density | 63/km2 (160/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Colmenaretes |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 28380 |
| Website | Official website |
Colmenar de Oreja is a town and municipality of the Las Vegas comarca, in the Community of Madrid, Spain. It was subject to a seven-month siege in 1139.[2] [3]
- ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
- ^ Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher, The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest, 2000, ISBN 0 7190 5226 2; pp. 162-263
- ^ Glenn Edward Lipskey, ed. and trans. The Chronicle of Alfonso the Emperor: A Translation of the Chronica Adefonsi imperatoris. PhD dissertation, Northwestern University. 1972