Botorrita

Botorrita
Flag of Botorrita
Coat of arms of Botorrita
Botorrita is located in Aragon
Botorrita
Botorrita
location in Spain.
Botorrita is located in Spain
Botorrita
Botorrita
Botorrita (Spain)
Botorrita is located in Europe
Botorrita
Botorrita
Botorrita (Europe)
Coordinates: 41°30′54″N 1°1′55.20″W / 41.51500°N 1.0320000°W / 41.51500; -1.0320000
Country Spain
Autonomous community Aragon
ProvinceZaragoza
ComarcaZaragoza
Government
 • MayorJosé María Castillo Vicente
Area
 • Total19.8 km2 (7.6 sq mi)
Elevation
394 m (1,293 ft)
Population
 (2018)[1]
 • Total498
 • Density25/km2 (65/sq mi)
DemonymBotorritanos
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Botorrita is a municipality of 574 residents located in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain.

Botorrita is known for the archeological artefacts found there, such as the Botorrita plaques.

The Romans knew it as Contrebia Belaisca (the first probably Celtiberian from *kom- + *treb(h) "the gathering (place)").[2]

  1. ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
  2. ^ Beltrán Lloris, Francisco (2002): (Review of F. Villar, Mª. A. Díaz, M. Mª. Medrano y C. Jordán, El IV bronce de Botorrita (Contrebia Belaisca): arqueología y lingüística, Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca 2001, 226 pp.) in Palaeohispanica (revista sobre lengua y culturas de la Hispania antigua), vol. 2, Zaragoza, pp. 381–393. ISSN 1578-5386.