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Origin of la Pobla de Segur

la Pobla de Segur, Pallars Jussà, Lleida

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Origin of la Pobla de Segur

Historical milestone · la Pobla de Segur, Pallars Jussà, Lleida

Image of la Pobla de Segur, not of the place itself.

The town's name goes back to the founding charter granted in 1268 by Viscount Pedro de Vilamur, giving the inhabitants of the Ribera de Segur privileges to create a trading centre in the Pallars; hence the term pobla, which denotes precisely a new settlement born from that kind of charter. The place name Segur, according to the philologist Joan Corominas, would derive from the Celtic name Segodunum, applied to the whole comarca. One of the oldest documents from the site, from the late 10th century (dated between 976 and 978), already mentions the spelunca de Sequni, a cave settlement linked to herding and vine-growing, predating the founding of the town.

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