Muel is a municipality located in the

province of Zaragoza Zaragoza (), also called Saragossa in English,''Encyclopædia Britannica''Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)/ref> is a province of northern Spain, in the central part of the autonomous community of Aragon. Its capital is Zaragoza, which is also t ...

Aragon Aragon ( , ; Spanish and an, Aragón ; ca, Aragó ) is an autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon. In northeastern Spain, the Aragonese autonomous community comprises three provinces (from north to s ...

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. According to the 2004

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( INE), the municipality has a population of 1,142 inhabitants. There are ruins of ancient Iberian settlements located within Muel's municipal term. These are known as Cabezo La Torre I and Cabezo La Torre II.GEA - Huerva, valle de la
/ref> In the 16th century it was inhabited by

Morisco Moriscos (, ; pt, mouriscos ; Spanish for "Moorish") were former Muslims and their descendants whom the Roman Catholic church and the Spanish Crown commanded to convert to Christianity or face compulsory exile after Spain outlawed the open ...

s (baptized descendants of Muslims). The only

Old Christians Old Christian ( es, cristiano viejo, pt, cristão-velho, ca, cristià vell) was a social and law-effective category used in the Iberian Peninsula from the late 15th and early 16th century onwards, to distinguish Portuguese and Spanish people att ...

were the priest, the notary and the owner of the tavern-inn. "The rest would rather go in a pilgrimage to

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than

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."
Geografía de la España morisca
', page 106, ''Biblioteca de Estudios Moriscos'', Henry Lapeyre, Universitat de València, 2011, , 9788437084138. It quotes Enrique Cock, ''Relación del viaje hecho por Felipe III en 1585 a Zaragoza, Barcelona y Valencia'', Madrid, 1876, page 314

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