Cabeza la Vaca, Spain

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Cabeza la Vaca is a municipality located in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain. The economy is based on agriculture. The surroundings have thousands of evergreen oaks, olive trees, pine trees and leafy scrubland.EconomyThe economy is based on agriculture, with breeding of pigs, and also goats and sheep, predominating. Pork and pork products such as red sausage, black pudding black and eggs and green ham, cheeses, and vegetable preserves are produced. Chestnuts, acorns, and cork are also produced.HistoryIn the Iron Age, this region, like all of Extremadura south where is found Cabeza la Vaca, was inhabited by Celtic people known as the Celtici, but on the border with the turduli and turdetanian in the south east. Throughout the second century B.C, the Roman conquest and carry out settlements in the south of Extremadura displacing the celtics languages around this zone. It’s possible the region where nowadays is Cabeza la vaca may enjoy a period of prosperity as the Roman road Ruta de Plata vía is close up connecting the south and north of the Iberian Peninsula. Roman coins have been found around Cabeza la Vaca by farmers when plowing the ground. Roma maintained the control through to the 5th century. The end of the Roman rule enabled the visigothic period, which often is regarded as the. In other parts of the Peninsula, this first domain meant a stagnation stage; nevertheless judging by the number of scripts and remains found around the zone and in the same village, this epoch was important for those lands. The Muslim conquest, between 711 and 716, don’t mean the final of the Christianism. In this mountainous, steep and craggy landscapes had resistors through to the 9th century, then the zone was depopulated, hence the scant remains related to the Muslim and lack of continuity of Cabeza la Vaca with other previous settlement. After the Christian reconquest in the first half of the twelfth century by the Kingdom of Lion and the order of Santiago, around 1230, some huts and cabins, perhaps related to unknown and razed town from the visigothic epoch and survivors of the Muslim domain, were gradually attracting settlers from the North, until the end of century the location was renamed as Cabeza de la Vaca de León, so it started out the modern history of the town. The language of lion spread through Extremadura, however the castilian imposed in the 14th century. The proximity of another Spanish kingdom, Portugal, along with civil wars within Castilla y Leon and terrible plagues led to instability through to the 15th century, when Cabeza de la Vaca consolidated firmly.

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