Aroche ( pt, Arouche) is a
municipality of
Spain located in the province of
Huelva,
Andalusia. According to the 2005
census, the town had a population of 3,319.
History
Similarly to
Moura and
Serpa, Aroche and
Aracena
Aracena () is a town and municipality located in the province of Huelva, south-western Spain. , the city has a population of 7,814 inhabitants.
The town derived its name from the Sierra de Aracena, which is part of the Sierra Morena system.
Ar ...
may have been conquered by the
Order of the Hospital
The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem ( la, Ordo Fratrum Hospitalis Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani), commonly known as the Knights Hospitaller (), was a medieval and early modern Catholic military order. It was headq ...
and incorporated to the
Kingdom of Portugal
The Kingdom of Portugal ( la, Regnum Portugalliae, pt, Reino de Portugal) was a monarchy in the western Iberian Peninsula and the predecessor of the modern Portuguese Republic. Existing to various extents between 1139 and 1910, it was also kno ...
during the reign of
Sancho II, circa 1230–1233, although it has been suggested the Christian occupation may have had to wait to the void of Muslim power in the area caused by the
Fall of Seville in the late 1240s. The area, occupied by
Afonso III of Portugal by 1251, was theoretically granted together with Aracena to the
Crown of Castile
The Crown of Castile was a medieval polity in the Iberian Peninsula that formed in 1230 as a result of the third and definitive union of the crowns and, some decades later, the parliaments of the kingdoms of Castile and León upon the accessi ...
in 1253, although the effective and definitive transfer happened in 1267 as settled in
Treaty of Badajoz. In fact, Afonso III granted Aroche a ''
fuero'' in 1255.
Demographics
Gallery
File:Aroche-P1040765.JPG, Monument
File:Aroche-P1040769.JPG, Roman remains in the archaeological museum
File:Aroche-P1040771.JPG, The Castle
File:Aroche-P1040773.JPG, Museo del Rosario
References
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External links
Aroche- Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía
Municipalities in the Province of Huelva
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