Botorrita
{{Infobox settlement
| official_name = Botorrita
| nickname =
| image_flag = Bandera de Botorrita.svg
| image_shield = Escudo de Botorrita.svg
| image_skyline =Cielo 07.JPG
| pushpin_map = Spain Aragon#Spain#Europe
| pushpin_map_caption = location in Spain.
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{ESP}}
| subdivision_type1 = Autonomous community
| subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Aragon}}
| subdivision_type2 = Province
| subdivision_name2 = Zaragoza
| subdivision_type3 = Comarca
| subdivision_name3 = Zaragoza
| leader_title = Mayor
| leader_name = José María Castillo Vicente
| area_magnitude =
| area_total_km2 = 19.8
| area_land_km2 =
| area_water_km2 =
| elevation_m = 394
| population_demonym = Botorritanos
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| population_footnotes = {{Spain metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}
| population_total = {{Spain metadata Wikidata|population_total}}
| population_density_km2 = auto
| timezone = CET
| utc_offset = +1
| timezone_DST = CEST
| utc_offset_DST = +2
| coordinates = {{coord|41|30|54|N|1|1|55.20|W|display=inline}}
| website =
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Botorrita is a municipality of 574 residents located in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain.
Botorrita is known for the archeological artefacts found there, such as the Botorrita plaques.
The Romans knew it as Contrebia Belaisca (the first probably Celtiberian from *kom- + *treb(h) "the gathering (place)").Beltrán Lloris, Francisco (2002): (Review of F. Villar, Mª. A. Díaz, M. Mª. Medrano y C. Jordán, El IV bronce de Botorrita (Contrebia Belaisca): arqueología y lingüística, Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca 2001, 226 pp.) in Palaeohispanica (revista sobre lengua y culturas de la Hispania antigua), vol. 2, Zaragoza, pp. 381–393. {{ISSN|1578-5386}}.
See also
References
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External links
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20170709005741/http://www.bandabotorrita.es/ www.bandabotorrita.es] Asociación Banda de Música de Botorrita "Jorge Aliaga"
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20170420235922/http://dare.ht.lu.se/places/22230.html Atlas del Imperio Romano]
- [http://botorrita.com/ Página sobre Botorrita de J.A. Cifuentes]
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