Logroño Province
The historic province of Logroño was created in the course of the reorganization of the Spanish territory in the years 1822-1833. It existed until the 1980s.
history
The territory of the former province of Logroño, which was never exactly defined in its historical boundaries, was for centuries part of the present-day provinces of Burgos (Rioja Alta) and Soria (Rioja Baja) , but as early as the 18th century there were considerations and efforts to use the area of today's Rioja because of its to make complex Basque-Navarre history on the one hand and its changeable connections to Castilian history on the other hand into a province of its own; after the wars of liberation against the French (1812/13) they received a new upswing. At the beginning of the 1820s, a movement to "restore the territorial unity of the Rioja" (Reunificación territorial de La Rioja) arose . On October 15, 1821, the Cortes decided to create a new province called Provincia de La Rioja ; However, since all Spanish provinces were named after their capitals, the name was changed to Provincia de Logroño in advance of the official establishment on January 27, 1822 .
After the end of the Franco era (1975), the province was renamed Provincia de la Rioja in 1980 . Since 1982 La Rioja has been an autonomous community consisting of only one province with its own statute of autonomy within the entire Spanish state.
Limits
The boundaries of the province remained in part controversial after it was founded (see map 2) and were only reduced in size and finally established in 1833 by Francisco Javier de Burgos . The northern border of the province essentially formed the Ebro , the southern border essentially followed the Iberian Mountains ; The west and (south) east borders have been changed significantly. Apart from small corrections, the limits set in 1833 - despite persistent discrepancies - remain in place to this day.
literature
- Article: 27 de Enero de 1822: Nace la Provincia de Logroño. (Origin of the Province of Logroño - Spanish)
