Province of Calatayud
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The Province of Calatayud was a province
Provinces of Spain
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 of Spain
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 created in the 1822 territorial division of Spain
1822 territorial division of Spain
The 1822 territorial division of Spain was a rearrangement of the territory of Spain into various provinces, enacted briefly during the Trienio Liberal of 1820–1823...

 (27 January 1822), during the Trienio Liberal of 1820–1823. It included the Aragon
Aragon
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ese comarca
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s of Comunidad de Calatayud
Comunidad de Calatayud
The Comunidad de Calatayud is one of the comarcas of Aragon, Spain. It is one twelve comarcas of the province of Zaragoza in Aragón. The administrative headquarters are in the city of Calatayud. Local wine achieved Denominación de Origen status in 1990 and it is the second largest wine producing...

, Campo de Daroca
Campo de Daroca
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, Aranda
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, the southern part of Valdejalón
Valdejalón
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 (now in the province of Zaragoza), the northern part of the Comarca del Jiloca (now in the Teruel), as well as some municipalities
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 that now fall in the provinces of Soria and Guadalajara. It had a population of 105,947, which constituted 0.9 percent of the Spanish population of the time. Its capital was Calatayud
Calatayud
Calatayud is a city and municipality in the province of Zaragoza in Aragón, Spain lying on the river Jalón, in the midst of the Sistema Ibérico mountain range. It is the second-largest city in the province after the capital, Zaragoza, and the largest town in Aragón other than the three provincial...

.

With the restoration of absolutism
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, this territorial division was revoked 1 October 1823. Although Javier de Burgos
Javier de Burgos
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's 1833 territorial division of Spain
1833 territorial division of Spain
The 1833 territorial division of Spain divided Spain into provinces, classified into "historic regions" . on the official web site of the government of the Canary Islands, accessed 2009-12-31...

 was very close to that of 1833, the province of Calatayud was not recreated; the other two major changes were the omission of the provinces of Villafranca del Bierzo
Province of Villafranca
The Province of Villafranca was a province of Spain created in the 1822 territorial division of Spain , during the Trienio Liberal of 1820–1823. Its population of 86,365 represented 0.7% of the total Spanish population of the time...

 and Játiva
Province of Játiva
The Province of Játiva was a province of Spain created in the 1822 territorial division of Spain , during the Trienio Liberal of 1820–1823. Its population of 164,795 represented 1.41% of the total Spanish population of the time. Its capital was Játiva...

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The question of a province of Calatayud was reopened in 1842, but firm opposition from the provinces of Guadalajara, Soria and Zaragoza led to the defeat of the proposal.
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