Ocaña, Spain

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Ocaña, a town an municipality of central Spain, in the province of Toledo; on the extreme north of the tableland known as the Mesa de Ocaña, with a station on the railway from Aranjuez to Cuenca. Pop. (1900) 6616.

The town is surrounded by ruined walls, and in it are the remains of an old castle. In one of its parish churches is the chapel of Nuestra Señora de los Remedies, in which Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella of Castile were married in 1469. Ocaña is the Vicus Cuminarius of the Romans, and was the dowry that El Motamid of Seville gave his daughter Zaida on her marriage with Alphonso VI of Castile (1072-1109). The Battle of Ocana was fought near here, on 19 November 1809; the Spanish under their Irish General Lacy were routed by the French under Joseph Bonaparte and Marshal Soult.

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Coordinates: 39°57′N 3°30′W