Fuente Obejuna, Spain

Fuente Obejuna is a city located in the province of Córdoba, Andalucía, Spain. According to the 2014 census, the municipality has a population of 4961 inhabitants. Fuente Obejuna is located 98 km away from the capital of the province, Cordoba. It was made famous by Lope de Vega's play Fuenteovejuna about the uprising that took place there in 1476. Local people are known as 'Mellarienses'.EtymologyAlthough Fuente Obejuna is the official name, the town is also known as Fuente Ovejuna and Fuenteovejuna. Before the creation of the “Real Academia Española”, the use of “b” and “v” was different of what it is today, and because of that fact Fuente Obejuna can be written in several ways, all of them correct. Some people have related the name of this village with the Roman villa “Fons Mellaria” (honey fountain) that was situated in the municipality of Fuente Obejuna, 5 km away from the urban area, at Masatrigos hill, a place where Roman remains have been found. From this name “Fuente Abejuna” was derived and then “Fuente Obejuna”.DemographyThere are 14 villages that belong to Fuente Obejuna`s municipality: Alcornocal Argallón Cañada del Gamo La Cardenchosa La Coronada Cuenca Los Morenos Navalcuervo Ojuelos Altos Ojuelos Bajos Los Pánchez Piconcillo El Porvenir Posadilla Number of residents in 1996-2006: