Socuéllamos is a town and

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located in the

province of Ciudad Real The province of Ciudad Real () is a province in the southwestern part of the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It is bordered by the provinces of Cuenca, Albacete, Jaén, Córdoba, Badajoz, and Toledo. It is partly located ...

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. It is famous for its

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s. The abandoned town of Torre de Vejezate is located within Socuéllamos municipal term.

History

Juan Osórez, Master of the Order of Santiago, granted a ''chartae populationis'' to the place of Socuéllamos in the 1290s, in the context of the quarrel of the order with the of Alcaraz. In order to encourage settlement of the territory, privileges of exemption from taxes and tributes (except for the diezmo paid to Uclés) were granted to those who cultivated vineyards. By the turn of

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, Socuéllamos enjoyed a scarcely productive yet extensive ''

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'', whereas it was populated by religious and superstitious Old Christians, with no presence of old ''

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es''. Population increased throughout the early 16th century thanks to its strategical crossroads location. In the wake of the 1569 Morisco Revolt, 49 families of unassimilated Granadan '' moriscos'' (140 members, nearly 20% of the local population) arrived to the village deported from

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. Possibly a paragon of the climate of intolerance, the inquisitorial coercion reached unheard-of levels during the 1580s, jailing at least 40 Granadan locals. The ethnic strife within the two communities of Old ''Christians'' and became explosive again years later, and a full-blown

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on the community was narrowly averted on 25 October 1609. The convictions of the offenders were eventually dismissed and soon after all the had left the village.

Sports

Socuéllamos is home to the Liga EBA basketball team CB Socuéllamos that plays its home games at the Pabellón Roberto Parra.El CB Socuéllamos se proclama campeón de liga y asciende a EBA
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References

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