Valverde de Llerena is a
municipality in the province of
Badajoz,
Extremadura, Spain. It has a population of 763 and an area of 41 km
2.
Situation
It is situated in the vicinity of
Ahillones toward
Guadalcanal
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, close already to the edge of the
Seville. It is a settlement in gentle slope on a hilly domain corresponding to the foothills of the Sierra Morena.
The city belongs to the commerce of Extremadura of Badajoz and the Judicial branch of Llerena.
History
The current name of the population is attributed to its founder, Don Rodrigo de Valverde. However, throughout history has been known by other names: at the end of the 15th century was the nickname of Valverde de la Reina. Also called "
Azuaga
Azuaga () is a town located in the province of Badajoz in southern Extremadura, bordering the Andalusian provinces of Seville and Córdoba in Spain. Azuga is 140 km from Badajoz, 125 km from Córdoba, and 140 km from Seville, in ...
Valverde", by relying on this municipality jurisdictional area.
Valverde de Llerena Foundation took place on the year 1240, by Don Rodrigo Valverde, Knight of the
Order of Santiago, Commander of Valez, who in the middle of the 13th century consolidated the occupation of the site by giving various privileges to those who settled there.
The new population went to the jurisdiction of the order of Santiago. In 1594, the population census of the provinces and parties of 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 the 16th century was part of the
Order of Santiago de
Leon and had 232 pecheros neighbors.
It was in 1559 when acquired for consideration and the title of villa by mercy of
King Philip. In 1586, it was segregated definitely santiagueños domains, to be sold to Mariana de Córdova, Marchioness of Villanueva del Río, passing more than returns to the extensive domains of the
House of Alba.
In the fall of the oldern times, the town was in the municipal in northeastern
Extremadura. It was integrated in the judicial district of Llerena from 1834.
Heritage
Catholic parish church under the invocation of
La Purísima Concepción, in the Archdiocese of Mérida-Badajoz.
References
Municipalities in the Province of Badajoz
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