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Arconada, the land of the boundary markers

Alconada, Tierra de Peñaranda, Salamanca

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Arconada, the land of the boundary markers

Curiosity · Alconada, Tierra de Peñaranda, Salamanca

Image of Alconada, not of the place itself.

The place name appears as Archonata in 1244 and Arconada in the fifteenth century: it derives from arcón, a diminutive of arca with the sense of a stone marking a boundary. The present form arose from a folk etymology that associated it with the falcon.

Photo: Bernardo Baggio (CC BY 2.0)

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