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Meaning of castrocontrigo by Felipe Lorenzo del Río




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castrocontrigo
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Town of León near the Bañeza in the region of La Valdería whose name derives from Castrum Gunterici, fortress rebuilt by the Vandal Gunterico in the fifth century on the Roman castro that Pliny the Elder had controlled in the first century directing the mining extractions made by thousands of slaves. Earlier in the Bronze Age it had been the city of Aria that gave its name to the Aria Valley, later Valderia. How much history lies behind our peoples!

  

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