Lleida

Lleida is a town within the west of Catalonia, Spain. It is the capital city of the province of Lleida. Geographically, it's miles located inside the Catalan Central Depression. It is also the capital city of the Segria comarca, in addition to the biggest city in the province. It had 137,387 inhabitants as of 2010, which includes the contiguous municipalities of Raimat and Sucs. Lleida is one of the oldest towns in Catalonia, with recorded settlements dating returned to the Bronze Age duration. Until the Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, the vicinity served as a settlement for an Iberian humans, the Ilergetes.

The town became a municipality, named Ilerda, beneath the reign of Augustus. It turned into reconquered in 1149, after being dominated with the aid of the Moors for many centuries, who had conquered the metropolis within the eighth century. In 1297, the University of Lleida turned into based, becoming the third oldest within the whole of Spain. During the following centuries, the metropolis changed into damaged by numerous wars along with the Reapers' War inside the 17th century and the Spanish Civil War in the twentieth century. Since then, the metropolis has been in a regular urban, industrial and demographic increase.