Le ville nuove del Nord della Corona di Castiglia (secoli XII-XIV)
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Keywords
- For 250 years
- from the mid-twelfth to the late 14th centuries
- the northern periphery of the kingdom of Castille â
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- Galicia
- Asturias
- Cantabria
- Vizcaya and Guipuzcoa â
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- was the scene of a royal city-building strategy. This paper aims to describe the processâ
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- s development and its legal basis
- some cases are studied as a reflection upon the most relevant characteristics of these new towns. At the end of the process
- by the late fourteenth century
- beside the old Episcopal sees
- we find a dense web of large
- mid-sized
- and small new towns
- concentrated on the coast and with a vibrant economic life