Mérida

Also known as Merida

municipality in Extremadura, Spain

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Mérida is a municipality located in Extremadura, a region in southwestern Spain. It is historically significant as the site of an important Roman city and contains notable archaeological remains from that period.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: municipality of Spain
Official name: Méria
Demonym: Emeritensi
Country: Spain
Located in: Province of Badajoz
Continent: Europe
Population: 60225
Area: 865.60
Elevation: 217
Time zone: UTC+02:00
Body of water: Guadiana
Head of government: Antonio Rodríguez Osuna
Capital of: Tierra de Mérida - Vegas Bajas
Shares border with: El Carrascalejo
Official website: www.merida.es
Image: Mérida. Mayor square. Badajoz. Extremadura. Spain (4923902587).jpg
Licence plate code: EX
Patron saint: Eulalia of Mérida
Significant event: Conquest of Mérida

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postal code: 06800
twinned administrative body: Mérida
Commons category: Mérida, Spain
topic's main category: Category:Mérida, Spain
category of associated people: Category:People from Mérida, Spain
category for people born here: Category:Births in Mérida, Spain
category for people who died here: Q15101740
native label: Mérida
Commons gallery: Mérida (Spain)
owner of: Estadio Romano
partially coincident with: Augusta Emerita
female population: 30417
male population: 28918
P8168: Egon Eis
different from: Mérida
inception: 1834-00-00
member of: Organization of World Heritage Cities
P12749: Brothers Grimm
replaces: Augusta Emerita

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Encyclopedic overview

Mérida ( Spanish: [ˈmeɾiða] ) is a city and municipality of Spain, part of the Province of Badajoz, and capital of the autonomous community of Extremadura. Located in the western-central part of the Iberian Peninsula at 217 metres above sea level, the city is crossed by the Guadiana and Albarregas rivers. The population was 60,119 in 2017.

The primitive settlement was founded by the Roman Empire as Augusta Emerita in the 1st century BCE to allocate discharged soldiers, eventually prospering as one of the largest cities of Hispania and the capital of the province of Lusitania. Its ecclesiastical metropolitan seat was taken away by the Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela in 1119. Conquered by the Kingdom of León in 1230, shortly before the latter's final integration into the Crown of Castile, it was handed over to the Order of Santiago. On numerous occasions over the course of the middle ages and the Modern Period, it suffered from the effects of warfare due to its location close to the border with Portugal.

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