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This article is about the Catalan town. For the former President of the Dominican Republic, see Joaquín Balaguer.
Balaguer is the capital of the comarca of Noguera, in the province of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. It is located at 233 metres above the sea, by the river Segre, a tributary to the Ebre. The population is 15,281 (2005). Balaguer was conquered from the Moors by Ermengol VI of Urgell in 1106; he made it his new capital, and it remained so for subsequent counts of Urgell. The town has a Gothic bridge, the "Pont de Sant Miquel", over the Segre river. This bridge, destroyed during the battle of "Cap de Pont" (Bridgehead battle in 1938), was rebuilt after the war. Another Gothic building is the Santa Maria Church, in the heights above the city, in line with a quite finely conserved wall dating 1,400 after Christ. The historic town is on the right bank of the Segre but, following the Spanish Civil War, construction began on a modern bridge, which initiated development of a modern extension of the town on the left bank. General Franco's forces first entered Catalunya from Aragon in 1938 throughout the Balaguer's bridgehead. [edit] Notable natives
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