concejo (Álava)

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| name = Concejos of Álava

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| territory = Álava, Basque Country, Spain

| upper_unit = Municipality

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| current_number = 334{{cite web |title=Nomenclátor: Concejos |url=https://www.araba.eus/elva/Nomenclator/ELVA5004NomCoc.asp |website=Diputación Foral de Álava |access-date=15 April 2025 |language=es}}{{refn|Before the dissolution of the concejo of Guinea, the number was also reported as being 333{{cite news |last1=Cabrera |first1=Sara |title=Elecciones en los 333 concejos de Álava el 21 de noviembre |url=https://www.noticiasdealava.eus/araba/2021/09/14/elecciones-333-concejos-alava-21/1125930.html |access-date=11 November 2021 |work=Noticias de Álava |date=14 September 2021 |language=es}} or 334,{{cite news |last1=Salazar |first1=Agurtzane |title=334 concejos de Álava eligen mañana a sus representantes |url=https://www.noticiasdealava.eus/araba/2017/11/25/334-concejos-alava-eligen-manana/390370.html |access-date=11 November 2021 |work=Noticias de Álava |language=es}} depending on whether Arriaga and Eskibel were included or not. Arriaga is depopulated and has been absorbed into Vitoria-Gasteiz, but is still officially listed as a concejo. Similarly, Eskibel has 2 inhabitants as of 2021, and is sometimes omitted from the list.|group=n.}}

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The concejos ({{langx|eu|kontzejuak}}, {{langx|es|concejos}}) are a type of sub-municipal administrative unit in the province of Álava, Basque Country, Spain.

Within the Spanish legal framework, the general name for such sub-municipal units is minor local entity (formally in {{Langx|es|entidad de ámbito territorial inferior al municipio|lit=entity of sub-municipal territorial scope}} also known by their acronym {{ill|EATIM|lt=EATIMs|es|Entidad de ámbito territorial inferior al municipio}}).{{cite book |title=Sub-Municipal Governance in Europe |date=2018 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-3-319-64724-1 |page=233 }}{{cite news |title=Qué es una entidad local menor y qué competencias tiene |url=https://www.lasprovincias.es/valencia-ciudad/entidad-local-menor-20200923210642-nt.html |access-date=11 November 2021 |work=Las Provincias |date=24 September 2020 |language=es}}

The existence of concejos in Álava is documented since the 13th century.{{cite book |last1=Abella y García de Eulate |first1=Alfonso María |title=Ordenanzas de buen gobierno de los Concejos de Alava |date=1985 |publisher=Diputación Foral de Alava, Servicio de Publicaciones |isbn=978-8450523911 |language=es}}{{cite book |last1=Ortiz de Zárate |first1=Ramón |title=Compendio foral de la provincia de Álava |date=26 September 2004 |publisher=Maxtor |isbn=978-8497611282 |language=es}} Their current status dates from 1984, when a law providing for elections to the concejos was passed;{{cite news |last1=Ruiz de Gauna |first1=Rebeca |title=30.000 alaveses pueden votar en las elecciones a concejos del 21 de noviembre |url=https://www.noticiasdealava.eus/araba/2021/09/24/30000-alaveses-votar-elecciones-concejos/1128173.html |access-date=11 November 2021 |work=Noticias de Álava |date=24 September 2021 |language=es}} and from 1995, when their juridical status was clarified.{{cite news |last1=Gatón |first1=Natxo |title=334 pueblos alaveses han elegido hoy a sus 'alcaldes' de los concejos |url=https://www.gasteizhoy.com/elecciones-concejos-alava/ |access-date=11 November 2021 |work=Gasteiz Hoy |date=26 November 2017 |language=es}}