Arrabalde

Arrabalde
Church of Arrabalde
Arrabalde Location in Spain.
Coordinates: 42°06′26″N 5°53′46″W / 42.10722°N 5.89611°W / 42.10722; -5.89611
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Castile and León
Province	Zamora
Comarca	Órbigo-Eria
Government
• Mayor	Baltasar Fernández Fernández
Area
• Total	15 km^2 (5.8 sq mi)
Population  ()[1]
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Arrabalde is a municipality located in the province of Zamora, Castile and León, Spain. As of 2009^[update], the municipality has a population of 294 inhabitants.

Place name

The name comes from the Arabic rabad "neighborhood, suburb", with the assimilated article al- : arrabád. In Spanish it was arrabal , while in Galician , Portuguese and Astur-Leonese it became arrabalde . As dispersed rural habitats are very common in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula , the term arrabalde soon acquired the meaning of "neighborhood or village detached from the main nucleus". In this case, Arrabalde owes its name to its status as a satellite village of a larger nearby population, or, more likely, to the fact that the town was founded next to an old ruined nucleus. ^[2]

References

1. Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
2. Riesco Chueca, Pascual (2018). Toponimia de la provincia de Zamora: panorámica documental, comparativa y descriptiva. Zamora: Instituto de Estudios Zamoranos "Florián de Ocampo". p. 314-315.