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Fuentelnava de Jábaga (Municipality, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)

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Flag of Fuentelnava de Jábaga - Image by "Asqueladd", Wikimedia Commons, 25 June 2019


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Presentation of Fuentelnava de Jábaga

The municipality of Fuentenava de Jábaga (573 inhabitants in 2014; 13,309 ha; municipal website) is located 15 km west of Cuenca. The municipality is made of the villages of Jábaga (municipal seat), Fuentesclaras, Navalón, Villar del Saz de Navalón, and Sotoca.

Jábaga is named for the Arab word yabla, meaning "a mount". The village was first documented in 1355; during the Castilian Civil War, the town of Cuenca refused to house Peter I the Cruel, who had to withdraw to Jábaga for days. The new borough of SeñorĂ­o del Pinar was established in 2000.
Fuentesclaras is named for the fountains (fuentes) that supplied the area with clear (clara) water; the village was re-settled by colonists coming from Molina.
Navalón is named for the old Castilian word nava, "a wet and fertile plain surrounded by mountains". The village was granted by Alfonso VIII to Juan Yánez, the first bishop of Cuenca.
Sotoco must have been named for a diminutive form of soto, "a lowland". The village was first mentioned in a document signed by Ferdinand IV in 1302. The village's fountain is of Roman origin; remains of a Roman road have been found nearby.
Villar del Saz de Navalón was named for the willows (sauces) that profusely grew around an old estate (villar).

Ivan Sache, 25 June 2019


Symbols of Fuentelnava de Jábaga

The flag of Fuentenava de Jábaga (photo, photo) is prescribed by an Order issued on 11 January 2009 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 23 January 2009 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 15, p. 2,914 (text).
The flag is described as follows:

Flag: Rectangular, in proportions 2:3, made of a blue panel with a white triangle charged with six green uprooted pines, placed along the hoist and reaching the fly's midpoint.

The coat of arms of Fuentenava de Jábaga is prescribed by an Order issued on 22 April 2009 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 15 May 2009 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 92, p. 2,915 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:

Coat of arms: Wavy azure and argent a pile inverted argent six pines eradicated vert placed 1, 2 and 3.

Ivan Sache, 25 June 2019