Cetina, Aragon
| Cetina, Aragon | |||
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 Cetina in comarca de Calatayud |
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| Country | Spain | ||
| Autonomous community | Aragon | ||
| Province | Zaragoza | ||
| Comarca | Comunidad de Calatayud | ||
| Municipality | Contamina | ||
| Government | |||
| • Alcalde | José Miguel Velázquez | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 78.76 km2 (30.41 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 666 m (2,185 ft) | ||
| Population (2011) | |||
| • Total | 687 | ||
| • Density | 8.7/km2 (23/sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Website | http://www.cetina.es/ | ||
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Cetina is a municipality in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon. It is situated at an altitude of 666 metres (2,185 ft) in the south east of the province, in the Comunidad de Calatayud, some 176 kilometres (109 mi) north east of Madrid and 98 kilometres (61 mi) south west of Zaragoza. The population in 2011 was 687.
Cetina is also a Spanish surname (e.g. Gutierre de Cetina), originally used to refer to people who hailed from this town.
The origins of the settlement are unknown, but Ambrosio de Morales has identified Cetina as Certima or Celtima, a Celtiberian fort which was conquered by the Roman general Graco in 179 CE. The town lies on the Camino del Cid, the path taken by the medieval warrior, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, known as El Cid, according to the anonymous medieval poem, "El Cantar de Mio Cid", which follows the course of the river Jalón. The relevant lines state that ""and they entered the plain of Torancio, and halted between Ariza and Cetina; great were the spoils which they collected as they went along." Cetina was granted its own fuero (law) by Guillén de Belles and Ramón Berenguer IV in the late 12th century.
In 1808, during the Peninsular War, the pueblo was pillaged by 18,000 French soldiers, commanded by Marshal Ney who occupied the area. In 1936, twelve members of the Unión General de Trabajadores, all hailing from Torrijo de la Cañada, a nearby village, were shot by nationalists and buried in a mass grave in Cetina. The bodies were exhumed in 2010 and returned to their families for burial.
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