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Arabic toponymy of Jérica

Jérica, El Alto Palancia, Castellón

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Arabic toponymy of Jérica

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The place name Jérica, of Arabic origin, oscillates between the interpretations “eastern slope” and “castle of the sheikhs”. The first refers to the Arabic šāriqa, “eastern foot of a mountain”; the second, to the variant qalʿa aš-širāq, documented in Arabic sources. The name evolved through the medieval forms Exerica and Xerica, recorded in 13th-century documents, Xérica in the 16th century and Xerica in the 18th, until it settled as Jérica as early as the 19th century.

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