Navahermosa

Navahermosa is a village in the province of Toledo and autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, Spain.

Toponymy

The term "Navahermosa" is a compound word of the noun and the adjective nava beautiful. Nava refers to a plain surrounded by hills and its origin is not easy to determine, as there are several. Corominas and Pascual thinks it's a precéltico Indo word, probably from the time of the invasion of the Urnfield . Antonio Llorente, to comment on the frequency of this term in the Salamanca, Avila and the western part of Segovia, locates the origin in the languages of vetones and carpetanos. Beautiful, derives from Latin Formosa, which in turn is derived from SHAPE, 'beauty'. The reason of the name seems clear, and it is pointed in the Topographic Relations of Philip II, "where this town founded nabajon this one, where is this village and vineyards founded a meadow of green grass".

Geography

The municipality is located "in a valley that was called in ant. Nava of the Beautiful, at the southern slopes of a mountain called Galinda ". belongs to the region of Montes de Toledo and borders the municipalities of Villarejo de Montalban and San Martín de Montalbán north Menasalbas east and south, Hontanar south and Cedena and Los Navalmorales west, all of Toledo. The term is crossed by numerous streams, the most important being the Torcón, which flows into the reservoir of the same name about two miles east of the town, with its tributaries the Gimena and Valle Gutierrez. We are also west of the creek and river Majadillas Cedena which forms the border with the municipality of Navalmorales. Others are minor Hoz de Pinilla, Valcavero, the source of the Vallejos, Valleálamos, of Pueblo, Castle, etc. Its highest point is located on Mount Galinda with 1141 m . Itself comprises arable fields Chaplaincy, Caravalles, Castillejo, Source of the Church, Higueras, Hormillo, Church, Nava de la Reina, the Silly Rañuela, Reloja, Romero, Val-de-bunkers and Val-de-Rodrigo .

History

Remains have been found proving that the area was inhabited since the Palaeolithic period along with debris covering different periods, such as the Roman and Medieval . Roman remains refer to a glass with faceted bronze handle found in the mid-nineteenth century in Valdezarza that is deposited in the Royal Academy of History. The oldest documents in which it appears Navahermosa dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

On May 4 and December 28, 1837, the village neighbors bravely defended from attacks by troops Carlists to command of Brigadier Jose Garcia Jara. In the mid-nineteenth century and had 706 households with 3,000 school provided real public funds to 140 children attending private and another 30 girls. The municipal budget totaled 33,070 of which 3,300 real were to pay the clerk.