Azuqueca de Henares

Azuqueca de Henares is a municipality located within the province of Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2013 census, the municipality had a populace of 35,397 inhabitants. The mayor of Azuqueca is Jose Luis Blanco. The name Azuqueca has its foundation in the Arabic language and means lane due to the fact Azuqueca changed into a touch village situated in a Roman avenue between Merida and Zaragoza.

In II A.C., Azuqueca turned into a Roman village, near the river Henares. The population wasn't very massive and it became a village dedicated to agriculture. In the Middle Ages, it changed into a shelter for the investors while it became underneath Arabic manipulate, however, after the Christian reconquest, via the king Alfonso VI. After some years, Azuqueca have become a part of Guadalajara. In 1628 the Salinas del Rio Pisuegra’s marquises offered the village to the king Philip IV of Spain.

The following centuries, Azuqueca nonetheless being a village without a extra than 300 population, but in the 20th century, with the influence of Madrid’s business development, and the National Plan of Economic Stabilization, Azuqueca became a small business city: Nowadays, the agriculture isn’t the important inexpensive interest and the provider’s section will keep to develop at some point of the next century.