{{Infobox settlement | official_name = Jadraque | nickname = | settlement_type = Municipality | image_skyline= Castillo de Jadraque (Jadraque) - 002 (30412033180).jpg | image_flag = | image_caption = View from the castle | image_shield = Escudo de Jadraque.svg | shield_size = 80px | population_demonym = Jadraqueños | pushpin_map_caption = | pushpin_relief = 1 | pushpin_map = Spain Castilla-La Mancha#Spain Province of Guadalajara#Spain | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = Spain | subdivision_type1 = Autonomous community | subdivision_name1 = Castilla–La Mancha | subdivision_type2 = Province | subdivision_name2 = Guadalajara | leader_title = Mayor | leader_name = Alberto Domínguez Luis | area_magnitude = | area_total_km2 = 38.91 | area_land_km2 = | area_water_km2 = | elevation_m = 832 | population_note = | population_as_of = {{Spain metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}} | population_footnotes = {{Spain metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}} | population_total = {{Spain metadata Wikidata|population_total}} | population_density_km2 =auto | timezone = CET | utc_offset = +1 | timezone_DST = CEST | utc_offset_DST = +2 |coordinates = {{coord|40|55|36|N|2|55|25|W|display=inline}} | website = {{official website|http://jadraque.localtic.net/}} | footnotes = }} '''Jadraque''' is a municipality of Spain located in the province of Guadalajara, Castilla–La Mancha.<ref name=REL>{{Cite web|url=https://ssweb.seap.minhap.es/REL/frontend/inicio/municipios/8/13413/125|access-date=25 May 2021|title=Datos del Registro de Entidades Locales|publisher=Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital}}</ref> The municipality spans across a total area of 38.91 km<sup>2</sup>.<ref name=REL /> As of 1 January 2020, it has a population of 1,370.<ref name=REL />
== History == It is home to a medieval castle, the so-called Castle of Cid. In a barter, Alfonso Carrillo de Acuña transferred the castle of Jadraque to Pedro González de Mendoza in exchange for the town of Maqueda and the mayorship of Toledo on 27 January 1470.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://xn--archivoespaoldearte-53b.revistas.csic.es/index.php/aea/article/view/196/196|publisher=Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas|doi=10.3989/aearte.2005.v78.i310.196|last=Hidalgo Ogáyar|year=2005|title=Doña Mencía de Mendoza y su residencia en el castillo de Jadraque|journal=Archivo Español de Arte|volume=78|issue=310|page=184<!-- 190-->|location=Madrid|first=Juana|doi-access=free}}</ref>
By the early 16th century, the land of Jadraque extended across around 713 km<sup>2</sup> of the Henares basin (divided into the ''sexmos'' of Henares and Bornova).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://repositorio.uam.es/bitstream/10486/1282/1/16421_velasco_sanchez_angel_luis.pdf|page=23|title=La población de Guadalajara,1500-1650|last=Velasco Sánchez|first=Angel Luis|publisher=Universidad Autónoma de Madrid|year=2008|isbn=978-84-693-2807-1}}</ref>
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