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Castelló d'Empúries

municipality in the Alt Empordà in Girona, Catalonia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ11286 ↗
Source-derived summary

Castelló d'Empúries (Catalan pronunciation: [kəstəˈʎo ðəmˈpuɾiəs]) is a town and municipality in the Alt Empordà in Girona, Catalonia, Spain. It lies 9 km east of Figueres.

History

In 1079, Castelló d'Empúries became the capital of the Empúries county due to the previous capital, Sant Martí d'Empúries, being too easily sacked by pirates.

The old town is somewhat dwarfed by the neighboring urbanisation of Empuriabrava, on the coastline of the Costa Brava.

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“Castelló d'Empúries” enters the record as municipality in the Alt Empordà in Girona, Catalonia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Castelló, d'Empúries and municipality can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1079—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Castelló, d'Empúries and municipality.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11286. VIAF identifies the subject as 158431599. The Library of Congress control number is n94120755. Authority coordinates are 42.258, 3.075. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1079.

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This entry incorporates text from “Castelló d'Empúries” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.