Orihuela

Orihuela is a town and municipality placed at the ft of the Sierra de Orihuela mountains inside the province of Alicante, Spain. The town of Orihuela had a population of 33,943 inhabitants at the beginning of 2013. The municipality has a complete region of 367.19 km², and stretches all of the manner down to the Mediterranean coast, west of Torrevieja, and had a total populace of 92,000 inhabitants at the beginning of 2013. This includes not handiest the town of Orihuela, but also the coastal tourist centre urbanizacion turistica of Dehesa de Campoamor with 33,277 population 2013 and some different villages.

Orihuela is the capital of the vicinity of the "Vega Baja del Segura" natural place of the Segura River it has been the capital of a province or even of a kingdom. The metropolis have become named the first city of the province of Alicante, 11 September 1437. In 576 it turn out to be the capital of the Visigothic province of Aurariola, to which it gave its call. In 713 five April the army guy and Count Teodomiro, proclaimed himself King of Tudmir.

In 825 the Kingdom of Tudmir, have become a dependent kingdom beneath Umayyad manage, and the capital grow to be moved to Murcia. In 910 the Kingdom of Tudmir surpassed to the Emirate of Cordova. In 1053 the principality of Murcia, part of the Kingdom of Denia, is created. In 1086 the principality of Murcia becomes independent from Denia. In 1212 the area handed to the Kingdom of Murcia.