Ocaña, Spain
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 Ocaña
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| Coordinates: 39°57′25″N 3°29′48″W / 39.95694°N 3.49667°W | |||
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 Spain
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| Autonomous community |
 Castile-La Mancha
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| Province | Toledo | ||
| Comarca | Mesa de Ocaña | ||
| Judicial district | Numero 1 | ||
| Government | |||
| • Mayor | Remedios Gordo Hernández | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 148 km2 (57 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 730 m (2,400 ft) | ||
| Population (2009) | |||
| • Total | 9,468 | ||
| • Density | 64/km2 (170/sq mi) | ||
| Demonym(s) | Ocañenses | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Postal code | 45300 | ||
| Website | Official website | ||
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Ocaña, a town and municipality of central Spain, in the province of Toledo. It is located on the extreme north of the tableland known as the Mesa de Ocaña, and has a station on the railway from Aranjuez to Cuenca.
The term Ocaña seems to have the base word olca- that originates from the Celtiberian 'fertile ground, meadow', and could have evolved into: Olcania > Ocania < Ocaña. There are other theories, like the one by Nieto Ballester, who states that Ocaña is a pre-Roman term, maybe Indo-European, but not Celtic. On the other hand, Menéndez Pidal quotes the name of Ocaña to support his thesis of the Ligurian sustratum in the Iberian Peninsula.
This town is located on the north side of the plain known as Mesa de Ocaña, where you can find many towns of the region. It is close to other towns and cities as Aranjuez in the northeast, Ontígola in the north, Noblejas in the east, Villatobas in the southeast, Dosbarrios, Cabañas de Yepes and Huerta de Valdecarábanos in the south and Yepes and Ciruelos in the west.
The town is surrounded by ruined walls which contain the remains of an old castle. Ocaña is the Vicus Cuminarius of the Romans and was the dowry that Al Mutamid of Seville gave his daughter Zaida on her marriage with Alfonso VI of Castile (1072–1109). The Battle of Ocaña was fought near here, on 19 November 1809; the Spanish under Juan Carlos de Aréizaga were routed by the French under Joseph Bonaparte and Marshal Soult.
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