Huesca
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Huesca Uesca |
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The city of Huesca as seen from the cathedral
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| Motto: Gate of the Pyrenees | |||
 Huesca
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| Coordinates: 42°8′N 0°25′W / 42.133°N 0.417°WCoordinates: 42°8′N 0°25′W / 42.133°N 0.417°W | |||
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 Spain
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| Autonomous community |
 Aragon
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| Province | Huesca | ||
| Comarca | Hoya de Huesca | ||
| Judicial district | Huesca | ||
| Founded by | Iberians | ||
| Government | |||
| • Type | Mayor-council | ||
| • Body | Ayuntamiento de Huesca | ||
| • Mayor | Luis Eliseo Felipe (2015) (PSOE) | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 161.0 km2 (62.2 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 488 m (1,601 ft) | ||
| Population (2010) | |||
| • Total | 52,347 | ||
| • Density | 330/km2 (840/sq mi) | ||
| Demonym(s) | Oscense | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Postal code | 22001 - 22006 | ||
| Dialing code | 974 | ||
| Patron Saints |
Saint Lawrence Saint Vincent |
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| Website | Official website | ||
Huesca (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈweska]; Aragonese: Uesca) is a city in north-eastern Spain, within the autonomous community of Aragon. It is also the capital of the Spanish province of the same name and of the comarca of Hoya de Huesca. In 2009 it had a population of 52,059, almost a quarter of the total population of the province. The city is one of the smallest provincial capitals in Spain.
Huesca celebrates its main festival Fiestas de San Lorenzo from 9 to 15 August.
Huesca dates from pre-Roman times, and was once known as Bolskan in the ancient Iberian language. It was once the capital of the Vescetani, in the north of Hispania Tarraconensis, on the road from Tarraco (modern Tarragona) and Ilerda (modern Lleida) to Caesaraugusta (modern Zaragoza). During Roman times, the city was known as Osca, and was a Roman colony under the rule of Quintus Sertorius, who made Osca his base. The city minted its own coinage and was the site of a prestigious school founded by Sertorius to educate young Iberians in Latin and Roman customs. After Sertorius, it is thought that it was renamed Ileoscan (Ἰλεόσκαν) by Strabo. It appears to have been situated on silver mines.
Eighteenth-century Spanish historian Enrique Flórez has pointed out the impossibility of one city supplying such vast quantities of minted silver as has been recorded by ancient writers under the terms argentum Oscense, signatum Oscense; and is of the opinion that "Oscense" meant "Spanish", being a corruption of "Eus-cara". The Romanised city was made a municipium by decree of Augustus in 30 BC.
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