Tarazona (esp)

Tarazona

Tarazona ranks 10,066th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Le Blanc, Taisha, Shimane, and Hamhung Royal Villa. Memorable people born in Tarazona include Raquel Meller, and Francisco Martínez Soria. Memorable people who died in Tarazona include Baltasar Gracián. Tarazona has been the birth place of many singers, and actors and the death place of many philosophers. Tarazona is located in Spain.

Tarazona is a town and municipality in the Tarazona y el Moncayo comarca, province of Zaragoza, in Aragon, Spain. It is the capital of the Tarazona y el Moncayo Aragonese comarca. It is also the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tarazona. Located on the river Queiles, a tributary of the Ebro, Tarazona was an important regional centre of ancient Rome, known as Turiaso, located around 60 kilometres (37 mi) from Bilbilis. The city later came under the rule of the Visigoths, who called it Tirasona. Read more on Wikipedia