Through various national and regional research projects, the “Ager Mellariensis” team of the University of Cordoba (www.uco.es/mellaria) has documented several kilometres of the great connecting artery between Cordoba and Merida as it passes through the territory of Cordoba and Mellaria.
This road was the evacuation channel for the wealth of the famed gold-producing land of Córdoba. Thus, a series of major and minor settlements and production complexes were set up around its course. We begin to glimpse the structure that allowed the financial power of the capital of Baetica in the powerful mining district of which it was a reference point.
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The Roman city of Regina is currently located in the vicinity of the municipality of Casas de Reina, a small town near Llerena, in the south of the province of Badajoz. In ancient times it was in the province of Baetica, attached to the conventus Cordubensis.
Neither the mining wealth of the area, nor its important strategic location, an important pass towards the Vegas del Guadiana, went unnoticed by the Romans. After the first skirmishes with the indigenous tribes and, above all, with the Lusitanian bands, the Romans erected a first settlement to control the territory at Cerro de las Nieves. With the pax Augusta, as happened in other towns, the high ground was abandoned and the city was built on the plain.
A city devoted to mining, it exercised administrative control over a large territory. As a result of this prosperous activity, in the time of Vespasian, it was granted the legal status of municipium.
Landscape degradation and the development of environmental movements in the history of Europe. Mining. The hydraulic pump was a mechanical device invented by Ctesibius of Alexandria in the 3rd century BC, which had one of its practical applications in the systematic exploitation of Roman mines. The conceptual complexity of its form and use demonstrates the progress of human beings in complex reasoning and, with it, their better disposition to exploit the environment.
Mining. Degradation of the landscape. Work organisation. Social inequalities. Slavery.
Causes of the degradation of the landscape. Of the many quarries that dot the territory of the ancient Roman city of Tarraco (now Tarragona, Catalonia), the quarry of El Mèdol stands out. The main supplier of stone material for the construction and monumentalisation of the city, this quarry has been admired since ancient times for its spectacular nature, its special configuration in depth and the central pinnacle known as the Needle, and its importance within the heritage of Tarragona was recognised with its declaration as an Artistic-Historical Monument (1934), BIC (1985), BCIN and, more recently, World Heritage Site by UNESCO (2000).
Salt mining in Central Europe.
On metallurgy and mineral exploitation.
Reference to the exploitation of iron. Brief information on the spread of vines and olives and the wine trade.
He talks about wine.
Map showing the number of teachers assigned to different places in the province of Albacete in the mid-18th century
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