Elgóibar

"Elgóibar (escrito en euskera y oficialmente, Elgoibar) es un municipio de la provincia de Guipúzcoa, País Vasco (España), perteneciente a la comarca del Bajo Deva, con una población de 11.589 habitantes según el censo del año 2015, una extensión de 39,11 km² y una densidad poblacional de 296,32 habitantes por km². Ostenta los títulos de noble y leal villa. La antigua Villamayor de Marquina es una población eminentemente industrial en donde se ubican buena parte de las empresas dedicadas a la fabricación de máquina herramienta, hecho que le ha dado el apelativo de «capital de la máquina herramienta»."

"Elgoibar (Spanish: Elgóibar) is an industrial town located in the province of Gipuzkoa, in the Autonomous Community of Basque Country, northern Spain.Located in a valley, it is traversed by the Deba river.Elgoibar is nicknamed the "capital city of the Machine tool". Elgoibar (Spanish: Elgóibar) is an industrial town located in the province of Gipuzkoa, in the Autonomous Community of Basque Country, northern Spain. Located in a valley, it is traversed by the Deba river. Elgoibar is nicknamed the "capital city of the Machine tool". Originally the town was called Villamayor de Marquina, but it had been founded in a place called before Elgoibar field. The town came to be known by this name a few centuries of its foundation. Until the mid-fifteenth century it appears in the documentation as Villamayor de Marquina, but in the statutes of the Brotherhood of Gipuzkoa of 1457 and 1463 years appears with the Elgoibar name and it has prevailed until today.Elgoibar name has been used in Spanish and in Basque in order to refer to the small town. The unique difference is that in Spanish the name Elgoibar has an accent mark in its "o". Elgoibar etymologically comes from the Basque language and is possibly composed of the word meaning elge field (usually cultivated) and safely by ibar word which means valley and plain. Therefore, "elge ibar" would be a similar term to vega or plain cultivated field and would have resulted in Elgoibar. The etymology would remain quite well with the mention of Elgoibar field that appears in the settlement charter of the town."