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Campo de Gibraltar
Comarca
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Motto(s): PRO GEOGRAPHIA, HISTORIA ET VOLUNTATE CONIVNCTI (Error: {{language with name/for}}: missing language tag or language name (help))
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Andalusia
Province	Cádiz
Municipalities	List Algeciras, Los Barrios, Castellar de la Frontera, Jimena de la Frontera, La Línea de la Concepción, San Roque, Tarifa
Area
• Total	1,529 km (590 sq mi)
Population
• Total	263,739
• Density	170/km (450/sq mi)
Demonym	Campogibraltareños
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Largest municipality	Algeciras

Campo de Gibraltar (Template:IPA-es, "Gibraltar Countryside") is a comarca (county) in the province of Cádiz, Spain, in the southwestern part of the autonomous community of Andalusia, the southernmost part of mainland Europe. It comprises the municipalities of Algeciras, La Línea de la Concepción, San Roque, Los Barrios, Castellar de la Frontera, Jimena de la Frontera and Tarifa.

Its name comes from the municipal term of the town of Gibraltar, now a British Overseas Territory. Until 1704, the Campo de Gibraltar was simply the term for the municipality of Gibraltar, about 500 km corresponding approximately to the current municipalities of Algeciras, San Roque, Los Barrios and La Línea de la Concepción. Following the capture of Gibraltar by Anglo-Dutch troops in 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession and its subsequent cession, in 1713, to Great Britain, the former inhabitants of Gibraltar settled down permanently and the first villages were created: Algeciras, San Roque, and Los Barrios, still for many years officially termed the municipality of Gibraltar. In 1759, each of them was established as a different municipality.

The Campo de Gibraltar comarca is integrated by the following municipalities:

References

1. Manuel Álvarez Vázquez (April 2004). "La pérdida de Gibraltar y el nacimiento de la nueva población de Los Barrios" (PDF). Almoraima. Revista de Estudios Campogibraltareños (34): 51–66. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-02-20. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

External links

• Mancomunidad de Municipios del Campo de Gibraltar

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