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San Esteban De Gormaz
San Esteban de Gormaz is a municipality in the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile-Leon, Spain. Its population is approximately 3,500. The town is located in the Wool Route and the Way of the Cid, the route of the exile of the Cid. The village lies between the bank of River Duero and a small hill, 70 km west of the capital of the province (Soria), 28 km from Tiermes and 45 km from Aranda de Duero. The Arab Gormaz Castle is located nearby. The zone where it is located has known settlements from prehistory. Historically, both Roman and Arab, constructed establishments of which some heritage is conserved. The Arabs considered it a very important Christian center. This caused it to become a military objective for 200 years, from the beginning of the construction of its castle by the Arabs in the ninth century (at which time the population was called Castromoro) until it fell finally into the hands of the kingdom of Castile. The innumerable fig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of Spain
The municipality ( es, municipio, , ca, municipi, gl, concello, eu, udalerria, ast, conceyu)In other languages of Spain: * Catalan/Valencian (), sing. ''municipi''. * Galician () or (), sing. ''municipio''/''bisbarra''. *Basque (), sing. ''udalerria''. * Asturian (), sing. ''conceyu''. is the basic local administrative division in Spain together with the province. Organisation Each municipality forms part of a province which in turn forms part or the whole of an autonomous community (17 in total plus Ceuta and Melilla): some autonomous communities also group municipalities into entities known as ''comarcas'' (districts) or ''mancomunidades'' (commonwealths). There are a total of 8,131 municipalities in Spain, including the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla. In the Principality of Asturias, municipalities are officially named ''concejos'' (councils). The average population of a municipality is about 5,300, but this figure masks a huge range: the most populo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arab Gormaz Castle
The Castle of Gormaz (Spanish: ''Fortaleza de Gormaz'' or ''Castillo de Gormaz'') is a large castle located in Gormaz, Soria, Gormaz, Spain. Its current structure was built in 965 to defend the borders of the Caliphate of Córdoba, Caliphate of Cordoba. At the time of its construction, it was the largest fortress in Europe. Location The castle is located 13 kilometers south-east of El Burgo de Osma, at Gormaz, Soria, Gormaz, in the province of Soria (province), Soria, in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Castile-Leon, Spain. It is situated north of the Duero river, placed on a hill that rises 100 m above the river level. Gormaz not only controls a contemporary bridge on the Duero, but it is in an area rich, in all directions, in watch-towers also of the middle of the 8th century AD and with some land-owners' towers such as the one that now serves as the belfry of the church of Bordecorex. The area is rich in relics from this period, near to Sepúlveda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matanza De Soria
Matanza de Soria is a village in Soria, Spain. It is part of the municipality of San Esteban de Gormaz San Esteban de Gormaz is a municipality in the province of Soria in the autonomous community of Castile-Leon, Spain. Its population is approximately 3,500. The town is located in the Wool Route and the Way of the Cid, the route of the exile of .... The village had 62 inhabitants in 2000. References {{coord, 41.6344, N, 3.2128, W, source:wikidata, display=title Towns in Spain Populated places in the Province of Soria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldea De San Esteban
Aldea is a Spanish word meaning "hamlet". It may refer to: People *Alexander I Aldea (1397–1436), Prince of Wallachia *Aurel Aldea (1887–1949), Romanian general and anti-communist resistance leader *Bogdan Aldea (born 1981), Romanian football player *Dan Andrei Aldea (1950–2020), Romanian rock multi-instrumentalist *José Antonio Rodríguez Aldea (1779–1841), Chilean politician *Juan de Dios Aldea (1853–1879), Chilean sailor * Ramón Aldea (born 1932), Filipino archer Places Antarctica *Aldea Island, one of the Bugge Islands off the Antarctic Peninsula Argentina * Aldea Apeleg, a village and municipality in Chubut Province *Aldea Asunción, a village and municipality in Entre Ríos Province * Aldea Beleiro, a village and municipality in Chubut Province *Aldea Epulef, a village and municipality in Chubut Province * Aldea Escolar, a village and municipality in Chubut Province *Aldea Protestante, a village in Entre Ríos Province * Aldea Salto, a village in Entre Rios Provi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monasteries
A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which may be a chapel, church, or temple, and may also serve as an oratory, or in the case of communities anything from a single building housing only one senior and two or three junior monks or nuns, to vast complexes and estates housing tens or hundreds. A monastery complex typically comprises a number of buildings which include a church, dormitory, cloister, refectory, library, balneary and infirmary, and outlying granges. Depending on the location, the monastic order and the occupation of its inhabitants, the complex may also include a wide range of buildings that facilitate self-sufficiency and service to the community. These may include a hospice, a school, and a range of agricultural and manufacturing buildings such as a barn, a forge, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parishes
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or more curates, and who operates from a parish church. Historically, a parish often covered the same geographical area as a manor. Its association with the parish church remains paramount. By extension the term ''parish'' refers not only to the territorial entity but to the people of its community or congregation as well as to church property within it. In England this church property was technically in ownership of the parish priest ''ex-officio'', vested in him on his institution to that parish. Etymology and use First attested in English in the late, 13th century, the word ''parish'' comes from the Old French ''paroisse'', in turn from la, paroecia, the latinisation of the grc, παροικία, paroikia, "sojourning in a foreign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knights
A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the Pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the Christian denomination, church or the country, especially in a military capacity. Knighthood finds origins in the Ancient Greece, Greek ''hippeis'' and ''hoplite'' (ἱππεῖς) and Ancient Rome, Roman ''Equites, eques'' and ''centurion'' of classical antiquity. In the Early Middle Ages in Europe, knighthood was conferred upon Equestrianism, mounted warriors. During the High Middle Ages, knighthood was considered a class of lower nobility. By the Late Middle Ages, the rank had become associated with the ideals of chivalry, a code of conduct for the perfect Court (royal), courtly Christian warrior. Often, a knight was a vassal who served as an elite fighter or a bodyguard for a lord, with payment in the form of land holdings. The lords trusted the knights, who were skilled in Horses in warfare, battle on horseback. Knighthood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
