Abánades

Abánades is a municipality located in the province of Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2010 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 75 inhabitants.Medieval history of AbánadesDuring the 10th century Abánades, already sufficiently developed, was located in a large area known as the Barusa, the upper limit of Al-Andalus, i.e. the border with the Northern Christian kingdoms. The Kingdom of León, which already had with its small independent county called Castile, and the Kingdom of Navarre, bordered Barusa. This area was of importance from the times of the Arab settlement in the Peninsula, because of the city of Medina Selim, Medinaceli. General Tarik had, in 712 reached Zaragoza with his Arab troops, after defeating the Visigoth King Roderic in Guadalete, and founded a medina - city - there on the ruins of the Roman city, abandoned during the later Empire.It was not until the 10th and 11th centuries that Medinaceli became the military capital of the Marca Media, with leader Almanzor, retaining its strategic importance as a defensive fortress against the progress of the Christian kingdoms. In the 12th century, specifically in 1104, the Castilian King Alfonso VI and his captains reconquered the city, and with it, its zone of influence, which included the future community of Villa and Tierra de Medinaceli, with territories in Soria, Northern Guadalajara and part of Teruel. Although there are informational documentaries of Abánades up to the first year of the 14th century, by then it was already framed in the jurisdiction of Medinaceli, which suggests that it also belonged to that city under Arab rule.