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, Province of Córdoba (Spain), Córdoba, Province of Bada ...

Castilla–La Mancha Castilla–La Mancha (, , ), or Castile La Mancha, is an autonomous community of Spain. Comprising the provinces of Albacete, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Guadalajara and Toledo, it was created in 1982. The government headquarters are in Toledo, and ...

. 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

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, 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 Alcaraz is a municipalities in Spain, municipality of Spain located in the province of Albacete, Castilla–La Mancha. The municipality spans across a total area of 370.53 km2. The locality lies at 953 metres above mean sea level. History The ...

. In order to encourage settlement of the territory, privileges of exemption from taxes and tributes (except for the

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paid to

Uclés Uclés is a municipalities in Spain, municipality of Spain located in the province of Cuenca, Castilla–La Mancha. The municipality spans across a total area of 64.61 km2 and, as of 1 January 2020, it has a registered population of 212. History ...

) were granted to those who cultivated vineyards. By the turn of

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, Socuéllamos enjoyed a scarcely productive yet extensive ''

encomienda The ''encomienda'' () was a Spanish labour system that rewarded conquerors with the labour of conquered non-Christian peoples. The labourers, in theory, were provided with benefits by the conquerors for whom they laboured, including military ...

'', whereas it was populated by religious and superstitious

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 atte ...

, 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 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 p ...

, 49 families of unassimilated Granadan ''

moriscos 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 ...

'' (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 CB Socuéllamos is a Spanish professional basketball team. In May 2021, CB Socuéllamos was proclaimed champion of the Primera División de Baloncesto of Castile-La Mancha and promoted to the Liga EBA.

that plays its home games at the Pabellón Roberto Parra.El CB Socuéllamos se proclama campeón de liga y asciende a EBA
Lanza Digital, 6 June 2021. Accessed 5 October 2021.

References

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