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Albox is a Spanish municipality in the province of Almeria in the independent network of Andalucía. It is situated inside the north eastern a part of Valle del Almanzora and 120 km from the provincial capital, Almería. In the year 2017 it had 11,481 inhabitants. Its superficial place is 168.42 km² and it has a populace density of 68 population/km². The municipality is made from the areas of Albox, Llano de las Animas, Llano del Espino, Llano de Los Olleres, La Molata and Las Pocicas.
Other scattered areas are Fuente del Marques and Aljambra. Due to its geographical role it has visible the passage of many cultures, vestiges of which can be visible to this day in various archaeological websites. Albox owes its basis and settlement to the Arabs its call manner 'tower' in Arabic with a history extensively related to the medieval splendour of the Kingdom of Granada from the 13th century. In the midst of the Christian Reconquest, inside the 15th century, Albox was taken from the Arabs through the troops of the Military Governor of the Kingdom of Murcia Crown of Castilla, Alonso Yanez Fajardo, and later incorporated into his identify holdings as Marquess of los Velez.
Around the year 1500 a sturdy earthquake hit Albox destroying a large part of the metropolis, making it necessary to demolish the ancient fort and the broken homes had been repaired with its stone. Albox took part within the continuous and chronic Moorish uprisings that happened within the Kingdom of Granada at some point of the 15th century. It changed into King Felipe II who, after defeating the Moors, decreed the expulsion of the Arabs from the Comarca and the re-population of the city with Christians from Valencia and La Mancha, constituting a municipal council or city hall in 1563, underneath the hand of its first Mayor, Anton de Andrano.
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