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This article is about the town in Spain. For the surname, see Bergara (surname). Municipality in Basque Country, Spain
Bergara
Municipality
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Coordinates: 43°07′03″N 2°24′48″W / 43.11750°N 2.41333°W / 43.11750; -2.41333
Country Spain
Autonomous community Basque Country
ProvinceGipuzkoa
EskualdeaDebagoiena
Founded1268 (1268)
Government
 • MayorElena Lete García (PNV)
Area
 • Total75.97 km (29.33 sq mi)
Population
 • Total14,596
 • Density190/km (500/sq mi)
Demonym(s)Basque: bergarar Spanish: vergarés, vergaresa
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code20570
20578–20580
Official language(s)Basque
Spanish
WebsiteOfficial website
View of historic quarter of Bergara
Center of Bergara

Bergara (Basque pronunciation: [berɣaɾa]; Spanish: Vergara) is a town and municipality located in the province of Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, in the north of Spain.

An Enlightened center of education operated by the Real Sociedad Bascongada de Amigos del País ("Royal Basque Society of Friends of the Country"), it was the place where brothers Juan José and Fausto Elhuyar discovered Tungsten .

During the Carlist Wars, it operated as the capital and royal court of the Carlists. It was there where the agreement symbolized in the Vergara Embrace between Rafael Maroto and Baldomero Espartero, Prince of Vergara ended one of the period wars.

References

  1. Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
  2. A Chemical Analysis of Wolfram and Examination of a New Metal, which enters into its Composition, By Don John Joseph and Don Fausto de Luyart, Translated from the Spanish by Charles Cullen, Esc. To which is prefixed A Translation of Mr. Scheele's Analysis of the Tungsten, or Heavy Stone; with Mr. Bergman's Supplemental Remarks, London, 1785, 67 pp.

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