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El Toboso

This article is about a town Castile-La Mancha in Spain. For the municipality in the Philippines, see Toboso, Negros Occidental.
El Toboso
Municipality
Coat of arms of El Toboso
Coat of arms
El Toboso is located in Castilla-La Mancha
El Toboso
El Toboso
El Toboso is located in Spain
El Toboso
El Toboso
Coordinates: 39°31′5″N 2°59′53″W / 39.51806°N 2.99806°W / 39.51806; -2.99806
CountrySpain
Autonomous communityCastilla–La Mancha
ProvinceToledo
Area
 • Total
144.19 km2 (55.67 sq mi)
Elevation
635 m (2,083 ft)
Population
 (2018)[1]
 • Total
1,783
 • Density12/km2 (32/sq mi)
Demonym(s)Tobeseños, Tobosinos, Tobosescos
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
45820
Websiteeltoboso.es

El Toboso is a Spanish municipality located in the province of Toledo, autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha. According to the 2009 data, El Toboso has a total population of 2,219 inhabitants. The economy of the town is based on wine production and cattle, and sheep.

Placename

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The placename is a derivative of the word toba (from vulgar Latin tōfa, Classical Latin tōfus), used in Spanish both for Scotch thistle and for porous limestone types, with the addition of the suffix -oso (relative to abundance).[2] In the 1575 Relations, El Toboso is cited to be named because of the presence of thistle in the surroundings.[3] Clemencín suggests instead a reference to porous stones (not common in the area).[3]

History

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The place received a population charter in 1275.[4] It received the privilege of township in 1338.[5] El Toboso was one of the founding members of the Común de La Mancha, an institution related to the Order of Santiago set up in 1353 by Maester Fadrique with the aim of satisfying demands about a more equitable distribution of taxes from several localities.[6][7] The town received a small number of Granadan Morisco families from Vélez Rubio who had been deported in 1571 in the wake of the Alpujarras Revolt.[8]

Main sights

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  • The Catholic church of San Antonio Abad, built in the 15th century.
  • The convent of Trinitarias Recoletas, from the 17th century.
  • The Cervantine Museum.
  • The Museum of Dulcinea
  • The lake of La Nava.
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El Toboso is famous for appearing in the novel Don Quixote by the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes, as the town in which the fictional character Dulcinea lives. The town also appears in Graham Greene's tribute Monsignor Quixote, where the heroes are a priest (supposedly a descendant of Cervantes's character), and the recently deposed Communist mayor of the town in the post-Franco era.

References

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  1. ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
  2. ^ García Sánchez 2025, p. 4.
  3. ^ a b Jiménez de Gregorio 1999, p. 48.
  4. ^ Jiménez de Gregorio 1999, p. 40.
  5. ^ Porras Arboledas 1995, p. 70.
  6. ^ García Sánchez 2025, p. 2.
  7. ^ Porras Arboledas 1995, p. 97.
  8. ^ Ghazali 2023, p. 179.

Bibliography

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