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Cuenca was given a set of laws, the Fuero, written in Latin, that ruled Cuenca's citizens, and it was considered one of the most perfectly written at that time. The Diocese of Cuenca was established in 1183; its second bishop was St. Julian of Cuenca, who became patron saint of the city. Alfonso X granted Cuenca the title of 'city' (ciudad) in ...
The Spanish chronicler Pedro Cieza de León visited Tumebamba in 1547 and said, "Everything has crumbled and in ruins but you can still appreciate how grand it was." [8] The city of Cuenca has been built on top of the old Inca city and whatever ruins remain are largely buried. [9]
Abdón Calderón Garaycoa (31 July 1804, Cuenca - 7 June 1822, Quito) was a hero of Ecuador's war of independence. He died at age 17 from wounds sustained at the Battle of Pichincha. Such was his heroism that Simón Bolívar not only promoted him post-mortem but also decreed that in the future the first company of the Yaguachi battalion be ...
The Spanish Empire, [b] sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy [c] or the Catholic Monarchy, [d] [4] [5] [6] was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In conjunction with the Portuguese Empire , it ushered in the European Age of Discovery .
This name was kept after the fall of the Roman Empire as a designation of the peninsula under the Goths and among the Greco-Latin Christian world. After the Arab conquest , the part of the peninsula controlled by the Moors was called, for centuries, Al Ándalus or alternatively Spania , although the process of Reconquest ended up eliminating ...
Valeria was an important Roman city and one of the three major cities (with Segobriga and Ercavica) in the modern province of Cuenca. Its impressive ruins are located on a spectacular site near the modern town of Valeria ( Cuenca , Castilla-La Mancha ).
The Celtiberians attacked Fulvius Flaccus while he was besieging the town of Urbicua (probably in the modern province of Cuenca or the province of Guadalajara). The Romans suffered casualties in a number of hard battles. The praetor persevered. The Celtiberians, exhausted by many battles, withdrew and the town fell a few days later.
Cuenca (Spanish: ⓘ) is one of the five provinces of the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha. It is located in the eastern part of this autonomous community and covers 17,141 square km. It has a population of 203,841 inhabitants – the least populated of the five provinces. Its capital city is also called Cuenca.