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Avilés, the village of the Asturians

La Vellés, La Armuña, Salamanca

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Avilés, the village of the Asturians

Curiosity · La Vellés, La Armuña, Salamanca

Thirteenth-century documents call the village Avilés, which suggests that the kings of León resettled it with people from Asturias, then part of the kingdom; from that form the present name of La Vellés derived over time.

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