Colmenar de Oreja

Colmenar de Oreja
Municipality
City Hall.
City Hall.
Flag of Colmenar de Oreja
Coat of arms of Colmenar de Oreja
Location of Colmenar de Oreja in Madrid
Location of Colmenar de Oreja in Madrid
Colmenar de Oreja is located in Spain
Colmenar de Oreja
Colmenar de Oreja
Location in Spain
Coordinates: 40°6′33″N 3°23′13″W / 40.10917°N 3.38694°W / 40.10917; -3.38694
Country Spain
Autonomous community Madrid
ComarcaLas Vegas
MunicipalityColmenar de Oreja
Government
 • MayorDavid Moya Aguilar
Area
 • Total126.3 km2 (48.8 sq mi)
Elevation
761 m (2,497 ft)
Population
 (2018)[1]
 • Total7,902
 • Density63/km2 (160/sq mi)
DemonymColmenaretes
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
28380
WebsiteOfficial 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]

  1. ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
  2. ^ Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher, The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest, 2000, ISBN 0 7190 5226 2; pp. 162-263
  3. ^ Glenn Edward Lipskey, ed. and trans. The Chronicle of Alfonso the Emperor: A Translation of the Chronica Adefonsi imperatoris. PhD dissertation, Northwestern University. 1972