The site known as Vascos (Navalmoralejo, Toledo), despite all the monuments it has preserved, has no contemporary documentary references, so it has always raised many questions about its origin and meaning, as well as its own name. The excavations that have been carried out on the site since 1975, apart from providing us with material evidence of the daily life of those who lived there, also lead us to consider that we are dealing with an enclave that was founded in the Umayyad period with the aim of being a metallurgical production centre and that later, in the 11th century, in the Taifa period, it became a centre for metallurgical production, in the 11th century, during the Taifa period, it became an urbanised enclosure with eminently military functions, given its strategic location in the territory of al-Andalus at that time and especially in the Taifa of Toledo.

Collection: Multimedia

Project: 3. Rural world and urban world in the formation of the European identity.

Chronology: -

Scope: Secondary Education

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U-5qgVgz3I

Resource type: Video

Format: Multimedia

Owner: Arqueological National Museum of Spain (MAN) (Modernalia)

Abstract: The site known as Vascos (Navalmoralejo, Toledo), despite all the monuments it has preserved, has no contemporary documentary references, so it has always raised many questions about its origin and meaning, as well as its own name. The excavations that have been carried out on the site since 1975, apart from providing us with material evidence of the daily life of those who lived there, also lead us to consider that we are dealing with an enclave that was founded in the Umayyad period with the aim of being a metallurgical production centre and that later, in the 11th century, in the Taifa period, it became a centre for metallurgical production, in the 11th century, during the Taifa period, it became an urbanised enclosure with eminently military functions, given its strategic location in the territory of al-Andalus at that time and especially in the Taifa of Toledo.

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