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Sale of the town and creation of the county

Cocentaina, El Comtat, Alicante

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Sale of the town and creation of the county

Historical milestone · Cocentaina, El Comtat, Alicante

Image of Cocentaina, not of the place itself.

Alfonso the Magnanimous sold the town in 1448 to Ximén Pérez de Corella for eighty thousand florins and granted him the title of count, from which the comarca takes its name. The Corella raised the seigneurial palace and governed the valley for almost two centuries.

1448

Photo: José Luis Filpo Cabana (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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