Villoria (Salamanca)
| Villoria municipality | |||
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 Villoria Town Hall
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| coat of arms | Map of Spain | ||
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| Basic data | |||
| Autonomous Community : | Castile and León | ||
| Province : | Salamanca | ||
| Coordinates | 41 ° 0 ′ N , 5 ° 22 ′ W | ||
| Height : | 818 msnm | ||
| Area : | 31.65 km² | ||
| Residents : | 1,351 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||
| Population density : | 42.69 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Postal code : | 37339 | ||
| Municipality number ( INE ): | 37374 | ||
| administration | |||
| Mayor : | Julián Barrera (PP) | ||
| Website : | www.villoria.es | ||
Villoria is a Spanish municipality in the province of Salamanca in the autonomous community of Castile and León . It is located about 26 km east of the provincial capital Salamanca .
Place name
The name Villoria probably comes from the Latin Villa Aurea, city of gold (Castilian: Villa de oro). According to another interpretation, it could come from a personal name, Oria. Villoria was sometimes called Villoria la mayor (Great Villoria).
history
Until 712 Salamanca and the surrounding area were first under Roman, then Visigothic rule. After the conquest of Spain by the Moors , the country belonged to the emirate of Córdoba , and in 1085 it was given to Alfonso VI. Recaptured by León as part of the Reconquista . The foundation of the municipality of Villoria at the beginning of the 12th century AD took place as part of the repopulation of the country by the kings of León. Their importance was reflected in the name extension "Villoria la Mayor", which they received together with the neighboring municipality of Villoruela . In 1833, Villoria was incorporated into the province of Salamanca during a territorial reform and thereby part of the León region.
Attractions
- The church of San Pedro with its Romanesque apse, built in the 13th-14th centuries. Century AD, registered in the Register of Bien de Interés Cultural (a cultural asset protected by the historical heritage of Spain) in 1993.
- As a formerly ancient Roman town, the municipality of Villoria belongs to the Zona arqueológica de La Vega and was included in the Register of Bien de Interés Cultural in 1992.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).
- ↑ Antonio Llorente Maldonado de Guevara: Revista de dialectología y tradiciones populares: Esquema toponímico de la provincia de Salamanca: topónimos latinos de romanización, II. ISSN 0034-7981, Volume 32, 1976, pp. 301-308.
- ^ Antonio Llorente Maldonado de Guevara: Las comarcas históricas y actuales de la provincia de Salamanca . Centro de Estudios Salmantinos, 1976, p. 130, 157 (Spanish).