Madrid

Madrid
Madrid
	Ceety
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	Motto(s): [«Fui sobre agua edificada,; mis muros de fuego son.; Esta es mi insignia y blasón»] error: {{lang}}: text has italic markup (help); ("On watter I wis biggit,; my wa's is made o fire.; This is my enenyie an escutcheon")
	Madrid Location o Madrid athin Spain
	Coordinates: 40°23′N 3°43′W / 40.383°N 3.717°WCoordinates: 40°23′N 3°43′W / 40.383°N 3.717°W
Kintra	Spain
Region	Commonty o Madrid
Foondit	IX Century
Govrenment
• Teep	Mayor-council
• Bodi	Ayuntamiento de Madrid
• Mayor	Ana Botella (PP)
Area
• Ceety	605.77 km2 (233.89 sq mi)
Elevation	667 m (2,188 ft)
Population (2018)
• Ceety	3,223,334
• Density	5,300/km2 (14,000/sq mi)
• Urban	6,345,000 (2019)
• Metro	6,791,667 (2018)
Demonym(s)	Madrilenian, Madrilene; madrileño, -ña; matritense; gato, -a
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	28001–28080
Area code(s)	34 (Spain) + 91 (Madrid)
Patron Saints	Isidore the Laborer; Virgin o Almudena
Website	www.munimadrid.es

Madrid (pronoonced: “mah-DRID” or /məˈdrɪd/) is the caipital an mucklest ceety o Spain. The caipital uised tae be Valladolid till 1561.

Madrid is in the middle o Spain, in the Commonty o Madrid. This commonty is a muckle area whilk includes the ceety as weel as smaw touns an veelages ootwi the ceety. 7 million fowk stay in the commonty. Mair nor 3 million stay in the ceety itself. At 655 m (2,100 ft) abuin sea level, it is the heichest caipital o ony European kintra. It haes twa fitbaa teams cried Real Madrid an Atlético Madrid.

Madrid wis ruled bi the Romans frae the 2nt hunderyear. Efter 711AD, it wis ringit bi the Moors. Fae 1083, Catholic keengs ruled the aurie again. Bi the mid-16t hunderyear it haed acome the caipital o a vera muckle empire. Spain wis ruled bi monarchs frae the Hoose o Habsburg, then the Hoose o Bourbon. Efter the Spaingie Ceevil War, it wis ruled bi a dictator (Francisco Franco) til the mid-1970s whan it became a democracy.

As it is the caipital ceety, Madrid is whaur the monarch lives an whaur the govrenment meets an aw.

Madrid is the financial centre o Spain. Mony muckle businesses hae thair main offices thare.

Tho it is a modren ceety, a fair wheen o its history can be seen an felt as a bodie walks alang the streets an in the muckle squares o the ceety. Thare bonnie pairks, famous biggins, airt galleries an concert haws. The simmer months is vera het an the winter months is vera cauld.