Carcaixent is a town in the Ribera Alta region (Valencia). Its contemporary history appears to be dominated by the boom in orange cultivation –since the end of the 19th century– and its export to European markets, fundamentally –since the beginning of the 20th century. The originality of this growth
When in 431 BC the Peloponnesian War broke out, none of the belligerents could have imagined that they would be involved in the longest and most ferocious civil conflict. The ferocity of the new civil war would indeed exceed in ferocity any previous one. For the first time in their history until the
On an ancient pre-Roman site, perhaps of Celtic origin, the first urban infrastructure of the Roman city of Segovia was located, following the usual form of a military settlement, on the road that would later join Mérida and Zaragoza, and in front of the place that currently occupies the Alcázar bui
After the excommunication of his brother Sancho II and the subsequent civil war, Alfonso III He occupied the throne of Portugal in 1248. Once the kingdom was pacified, the new monarch focused his forces on the conquest of the southern territories occupied by the Muslims. Once these were defeated,