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lmudevar, that thus before Almodóvar was called, one was based there by year 711 by the Balch Arab,During years 990 to 1246, until the conquest of Jaén, Cordova and Seville, happened multiple events, wars and truces. Almodóvar, the Balalita and Mancha, were scenes, perennial, forced and afraid, of them. Fields, towns and castles, changed several times of standard and owner, to the compass of swings soldiers. But also there was great lapsus of peace, coexistence, interchanges, loves and marriages.
In 1159, Fray Raimundo Mountain range, Abbot of the Monastery
Cisterciense de Fitero, found the Order of Calatrava, nun and military man,
successor of the Templarios, and in the end, with seat or capitalidad in I
reddle. One hundred two towns manchegos, or bordering depended on her. Almodóvar,
governed by the Lieutenant or Registered calatravo, was Charge hers and the Real
Valley of Alcudia.
Alfonso VI, King of Castile and
of Leon, it conquers Toledo, (1095), and towns of Extremadura and Portugal. And
by her marriage, (by love and convenience), with Zaida, daughter of Al-Motamid,
Caliph of Cordova, annex towns of the Balálita, that soon such Arab would
attack. They are constructed in the toledana city: Walls, doors, passages,
hospitals, castles, palaces.
