El Padul
| El Padul | ||
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| Padul | ||
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 El Padul
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| Coordinates: 37°1′28″N 3°37′36″W / 37.02444°N 3.62667°WCoordinates: 37°1′28″N 3°37′36″W / 37.02444°N 3.62667°W | ||
| Country |
 Spain
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| Autonomous community |
 Andalusia
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| Province | Granada | |
| Comarca | Valle de Lecrín | |
| Judicial district | Granada | |
| Government | ||
| • Alcalde | Manuel Alarcón Pérez (2007) (PSOE) | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 89 km2 (34 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 744 m (2,441 ft) | |
| Population (2008) | ||
| • Total | 8,224 | |
| • Density | 92/km2 (240/sq mi) | |
| Demonym(s) | Paduleño, -ña. | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| Postal code | 18640 | |
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El Padul is a municipality of south-eastern Spain, in the province of Granada, within the comarca of el Valle de Lecrín. The population on 2008 was 8.440 inhabitants. This town is situated 13 km at the south of the city of Granada. Its altitude is 744 meters above the sea level.
El Padul borders on Alhendín, Otura and Dílar to the north, ; Dúrcal and Villamena to the east; Las Albuñuelas to the south and Jayena to the west.
The origin of the name of El Padul comes from the Roman era, deriving from the Latin word palus-paludis and exactly from its accusative case paludem, which means wetland or bog, clearly referring to El Padul's wetland.
Due to the lack of known manuscripts talking about the name of the town along a period of time ranging several centuries, the phases of evolution of the Latin word are unknown, as well as the preceding definite article "El". In relation to this point, two plausible possibilities are proposed: (1) The article could have appeared directly from the Latin word ille, which originated the definite articles in all Romance languages. (2) The article could have appeared later with the Arabic article al. Regardless this controversy, during the Nasrid period, Ibn al-Khatib wrote the word "Al-Badul" (in Arabic spelling), with "B" because "P" does not exists in Arabic, although probably people used the sound "P".
The modern name of El Padul appears in the first manuscripts written in Spanish language in the 16th century. Among these manuscripts, the most important are the Parochial Archive and the Book of Surveying written in 1571. In the latter is possible to read this sentence: ...que era de vecinos moriscos del dicho lugar El Padul....
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