{"id":641,"date":"2023-01-12T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/?p=641"},"modified":"2024-02-29T21:55:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T20:55:00","slug":"map-of-the-province-of-madrid-1773","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mapasmilhaud.com\/en\/mapas-antiguos\/mapa-de-la-provincia-de-madrid-1773\/","title":{"rendered":"Map of the province of Madrid (1773)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This map was created by Spanish cartographer Tom\u00e1s L\u00f3pez de Vargas Machuca in 1773 and published posthumously by his sons in the \u00abGeographical Atlas of Spain<\/a>\u00bb from 1804. The map depicts the province of Madrid with the territorial boundaries prior to Javier de Burgos's reform of the provincial administration in 1833.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former province of Madrid bordered the northwest and southeast with the province of Segovia<\/a>, to the west and northeast with the Guadalajara province<\/a> and to the east and south with the province of Toledo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was one of the smallest provinces in Spain in 1773. This was partly because the province had no historical significance, but rather came into being following the appointment of Madrid as the capital of the kingdom. Little by little, territory that had previously belonged to the provinces of Guadalajara, Toledo and Segovia was annexed, but towns such as Chinch\u00f3n, M\u00f3stoles, Alcal\u00e1 de Henares, Navalcarnero, El Escorial, Torrej\u00f3n de Ardoz and Aranjuez were still outside the provincial domain of Madrid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a box in the top left-hand corner, there is a reference to the Almonacid district, which is geographically located in the south of the province, near the city of Toledo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can read more about Tom\u00e1s L\u00f3pez and his atlas in this article from the newsletter: Tom\u00e1s L\u00f3pez and the first detailed atlas of Spain (1804)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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