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
	Segovia Location in Spain
	Coordinates: 40°57′N 4°10′W / 40.950°N 4.167°WCoordinates: 40°57′N 4°10′W / 40.950°N 4.167°W
Kintra	Spain
Autonomous commonty	Castile an León
Province	Segovia
Comarca	Capital y Área Metropolitana
Judicial destrict	Partido de Segovia
Govrenment
• Alcalde	Pedro Arahuetes García (PSOE)
Area
• Total	163.59 km2 (63.16 sq mi)
Elevation	1000 m (3,000 ft)
Population (2018)
• Total	51,683
• Density	320/km2 (820/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Segovian
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	40001-40006
Offeecial leid(s)	Spaingie
Website	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[eedit | eedit soorce]

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.