Estudios sobre la Europa Oriental

Descubrimiento del río de las Amazonas incluye textos de los siguientes autores: Gaspar de Carvajal, Pedrarias de Almesto, Martín de Saavedra Galindo y Alonso de Rojas.

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Los romanos llamaron Hispania a la Península Ibérica, nombre derivado del topónimo I-sepha-im con el que la identificaron los fenicios; los bizantinos usarán Spania para referirse a ella, y con el tiempo acabará originándose el término moderno España. Esta prolongación toponímica es un ejemplo sutil del profundo arraigo de los patrones de toda clase que los casi siete siglos de presencia romana en la Península proporcionaron. Aunando el análisis del procedimiento de conquista e incorporación de Hispania en el amplio marco político y territorial dominado por Roma con el diseño...

This study looks at the concepts of society, space, urbanism, expansion and organisation in the transition from Late Antiquity to the medieval period in Castile, Spain. Escalona reviews the evidence for the Iron Age and Roman antecedents in this area and details the history of fragmentation of the different territories within it, especially under the Visigoths and prior to the medieval period. Escalona discusses the development of a series of territories including Juarros, Carazo, Barbadillo and Salas, and focuses in particular on Lara which, by the middle of the 11th century, had become the...