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The crime of Matilla

Matilla de los Caños del Río, Campo de Salamanca, Salamanca

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The crime of Matilla

Historical milestone · Matilla de los Caños del Río, Campo de Salamanca, Salamanca

Image of Matilla de los Caños del Río, not of the place itself.

In 1880 a local uprising over land ownership ended with one dead and forty prosecuted; the affair, known as the crime of Matilla, illustrates the agrarian conflict of the Campo Charro in the nineteenth century.

1880

Photo: Juan Pablo Zumel Arranz (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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