Segovia

Segovia
Segovia
	— Municipality —
	View o the back façade o the Segovia Cathedral, the auncient Ceety Waws (8t century), an the Guadarrama mountains.
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	Location o Segovia in Spain
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	Coordinates: 40°57′N 4°10′W / 40.95°N 4.167°W
Kintra	Spain
Autonomous commonty	Template:Kintra data Castile and León
Province	Segovia
Comarca	Capital y Área Metropolitana
Judicial destrict	Partido de Segovia
	Govrenment
- Alcalde	Pedro Arahuetes García (PSOE)
	Aurie
- Tot	163.59 km2 (63.2 sq mi)
Hicht	1,000 m (3,281 ft)
	Indwallers (2009)
- Tot	56,660
- Densitie	346.4/km2 (897.1/sq mi)
Demonym	Segoviano, na
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Simmer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	40001-40006
Offeecial leid(s)	Spanish
Wabsteid	Offeecial wabsteid

Segovia is a ceety in Spain, the caipital o Province o Segovia in the autonomous commonty o Castile an León. It is situatit north o Madrid, 30 minutes bi heich speed train. The municipality coonts some 55,500 inhabitants.

Etymology [edit]

The name o Segovia is o Celtiberian oreegin. The first inhabitants namit the ceety Segobriga." This name comes frae twa terms o celtiberian oreegin, leid o the celtic Indo-European branch. It comes frae the term Sego, which means «victory» (prefix an aw present in ither ceeties such as Segeda an Segontia) an the suffix -briga, which wad mean «ceety» or «strength». So it micht be translatit as "Ceety o the victory" or "Victorious ceety".

Unner the Romans and Arabs, the ceety wis cried Segovia (Σεγουβία, Ptolomeo ii. 6. § 56) an Šiqūbiyyah (Arabic شقوبية) respectively.