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El Ràfol d'Almúnia is a municipality in the comarca of Marina Alta in the Valencian Community, Spain.
It is situated in the Northern part of the province of Alicante, and numbers some 635 inhabitants according to the 2007 Spanish National Census.
El Ràfol D´Almúnia has Arab origins. It belonged to King Taifas of Denia but under the conquest of Jaime the first, control passed to the crown of Aragon and their local ruling families, first the Murs, then the Sapenas and more recently the Almúnia.
After the expulsion of the moors, El Ráfol was repopulated in 1610 by 123 inhabitants occupying 26 houses. In 1800 it had grown to 80 houses with 429 inhabitants.
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