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From Hippo to Yepes

Yepes, Mesa de Ocaña, Toledo

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From Hippo to Yepes

Curiosity · Yepes, Mesa de Ocaña, Toledo

Image of Yepes, not of the place itself.

The settlement goes back to a Celtiberian site. In Roman times the town was called Hippo, under Muslim rule Hepes, and from that the present name derives. Alfonso VIII granted it a charter in 1223.

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