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Source Obejuna
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Source Obejuna is a town of the county of Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain. In the year 2005 counted with 5.434 inhabitants. Their superficial extension is of 592 km² and he/she has a density of 9,2 hab / km². Their geographical coordinates are 38º 16' N, 5º 25' OR. it is located to an altitude of 625 meters and 98 kilometers of the county capital, Córdoba.
The municipality is also called Fuenteovejuna, Fuenteobejuna and Source Ovejuna, although that most used one is that of Source Obejuna. This variety of names owes to titled Lope de Vega play Fuenteovejuna, based on events happened in this municipality in the XV century, during the Spanish Reconquest, and for which this town is known. Lope de Vega ignored that the etymological origin of Source Obejuna comes from bee and not of sheep. Due to the orthographic confusion that that supposed at the moment it is admitted to write it of anyone in the mentioned ways.Another curiosity is its gentile one, Mellarienses, that is usually read separately with the eles Mel·larienses, due to the Latin origin of the same one.
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