Titulcia | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Mapsize: | 300px |
Pushpin Map: | Spain |
Pushpin Label Position: | above |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Spain |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Spain |
Subdivision Type1: | Autonomous community |
Subdivision Name1: | Community of Madrid |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | Madrid |
Subdivision Type3: | Comarca |
Subdivision Name3: | Las Vegas |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Fuencisla Molinero Cuenca |
Area Total Km2: | 9.9 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Coordinates: | 40.1367°N -3.57°W |
Elevation M: | 509 |
Postal Code: | 28539 |
Blank Name: | Climate |
Blank Info: | BSk |
Titulcia is a municipality of the Community of Madrid, Spain.
Supposedly of Roman origin, Titulcia is situated on the ancient military road from Emerita Augusta and Cesaraugusta (now Zaragoza). With the arrival of the Arabs, the city was razed, but it regained its previous significance during the Reconquest and thereafter taking the name of Bayonne (c. 1208)
Its strategic position was recognized by the French occupiers during the Napoleonic Wars, who held it until 1814. After the defeat of the French, the town recovered its original name at the insistence of King Fernando VII.
The city was destroyed, for the fifth time in its history, during the Spanish Civil War, when it was the divisional headquarters of Republican forces.