Carpetania

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Map of Carpetania

Carpetania was an ancient region of what is today

Castile-La Mancha
.

It was the most fertile part of Spain, and its name may derive from the Greek karpos meaning fruit due to abundant cultivation of fruits in the region.

Vaccei and Vettones. This area was easily conquered by the Romans and quickly integrated culturally and politically. Thus, it is practically unmentioned in the literature of the conquest. It retained a distinct cultural identity though the Visogothic period.[2]

Its main urban nuclei (Toletum, corresponding to present Toledo; Complutum, the present Alcalá de Henares, Consabura, the present Consuegra, Segóbriga (Saelices, River basin) and Laminio) acquired municipal legal statutes soon after the Roman conquest.

It has also been used in Geography to designate the

Iberian System
) has nearly vanished.

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-87586-925-4
    . Retrieved 2022-07-16.
  2. ISBN 978-90-04-45001-1
    . Retrieved 2022-07-16.

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