Béjar
Sign in to saveBéjar () is a town and municipality of Spain located in the province of Salamanca, autonomous community of Castile and León. As of 2024, it had a population of 11,949. The historical development of the town has been linked to its once thriving textile manufacturing industry.
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- Settlement.name
- Béjar
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- Municipality
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- Escudo de Béjar-Salamanca.svg
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- Spain Castile and León#Spain
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- 1
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- Country
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- Spain
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- Autonomous community
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- Castile and León
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- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Salamanca
- Settlement.leader_party
- PP
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 46
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 959
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.population_demonym
- bejarano
- Settlement.timezone
- CET
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Béjar () is a town and municipality of Spain located in the province of Salamanca, autonomous community of Castile and León. As of 2024, it had a population of 11,949. The historical development of the town has been linked to its once thriving textile manufacturing industry.
==History== Béjar was founded towards October–November 1208 and it was presumably granted a fuero afterwards. It was originally placed to the south of the current settlement, but the population relocated to its current location in the first half of the 14th century. Featuring a cattle-based economy, the town sustained a quick early growth. Over the rest of the middle ages, the town passed several times from a royal demesne to seigneurial lordship and vice versa. The town saw its fuero ratified in 1333. Béjar celebrated an eight-day long medieval fair every year. The town enjoyed from availability to plenty of wood resources, hydropower and sheep flocks.