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The Lordship of the Five Towns

Villapalacios, Sierra de Alcaraz y Campo de Montiel, Albacete

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The Lordship of the Five Towns

Curiosity · Villapalacios, Sierra de Alcaraz y Campo de Montiel, Albacete

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El Señorío de las Cinco Villas was a historical sub-region of the former Alfoz de Alcaraz, formed, between the 15th and 18th centuries, by the present-day municipalities of Villapalacios, which acted as its capital, together with Villaverde de Guadalimar, Bienservida, Riópar and Cotillas, on the south-western edge of the province of Albacete, within the Sierra de Alcaraz and already close to the border with Jaén and Ciudad Real. After the reconquest of Alcaraz by Alfonso VIII in 1213, the whole region was incorporated into that city's Alfoz, on which the municipalities that would later form this lordship at first depended as mere hamlets. Their shared heraldic symbol, also borne by the count of Paredes, is the cauldrons.

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