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Philip II's town charter in Galápagos

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Philip II's town charter in Galápagos

Curiosity · Galápagos, La Campiña, Guadalajara

Image of Galápagos, not of the place itself.

The place name appears documented as early as 1133, cited as a boundary of the alfoz of Guadalajara, and in 1585 Philip II granted the town, by a charter signed at Monzón, the title of town, giving it its own territory and incorporating it into the Crown. Until then Galápagos had depended successively on the Monastery of la Vid, on the nuns of Santa Clara de Guadalajara from 1311, and on the Archbishopric of Toledo from 1332. Because of debts, in 1698 it passed into the hands of the Count of Moriana del Río, under whose jurisdiction it remained until the disentailment of 1812.

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