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Colmenar de Oreja
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Colmenar de Oreja is a town and municipality of the Las Vegas comarca, in the Community of Madrid, Spain. It was subject to a seven-month siege in 1139.
It is located in the hydrographic plateau of the rivers Tagus and Tajuña, at 40o 07' 00" north and 5o 47' 30" east, in the region of La Alcarria de Chinchón. Its altitude at Mediterranean level is 753 meters on the north door of Santa Maria la Mayor church. The highest point in the district is in Navarredonda at 780 metres, and the lowest is in the river at its entrance in the district, whose altitude is 515 metres. Its municipal district is bounded to the north by Valdelaguna, Chinchón and Villaconejos, to the south by the province of Toledo and the municipalities of Villarrubia de Santiago, Noblejas, Ocaña and Aranjuez; to the east by the municipalities of Belmonte de Tajo, Villarejo de Salvanés and Villarrubia de Santiago, and to the west by Aranjuez.
Located 50 km from Madrid capital city, Colmenar de Oreja is presently only accessible by road, since its former railway station and connection does not exist anymore.
There are regular bus routes from Madrid (Line 337) and from Aranjuez (Line 430).
The name Colmenar de Oreja, comes from the Latin name “Apis Aureliae”. The Aureliae Fort (later Castle of Oreja) might have been named after the Roman consul Aurelio. Around the fort several villages emerged, one of them, dedicated to apiculture, was Apis Aureliae (latin name for Apiary of Aurelio), later in Spanish, Colmenar de Oreja.
First known human settlements in Colmenar de Oreja are traced back to the Second Iron Age and located in the caves on the Tagus river basin and within the archeological site of Los Castrejones, both sites occupied by the Carpetani. The region of La Vega is cited by historians Polybius and Livy in their description of the Tagus Battle in 220 BC, when 100000 Carpetani, Olcades and Vaccaei were defeated by Carthaginian general Hannibal.
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