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THE ORIGINS OF THE COMPANY AS OF CUENCA Province

For Miguel Jimenez Monteserin

Professor of Modern History of

College "Gil de Albornoz"

Magazine Basin ", No. 10, Second Semester 1976

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geographical and administrative spaces called provinces, like any other instrument of government, it is evident that they have been subjected to the vicissitudes derived from the progressive strengthening of called modern state along the old regime, obtained by the Liberal brand new system, known to enjoy life more frustrated attempts during its first, precarious, 1812 and 1821 trials. Nor is no secret to anyone not happy over the decision of those whose precarious initial authority has grown to the extent that bureaucratic systems would obtain the necessary rationalization. It

well-known fact that the current provincial division, dating from as early as the RD of 30 November 1833, being one of the first fruits administrative, those looking for greater efficiency when the transmission of decisions of the central, regional realities ignored or historical, defining entities with a geographic and demographic balance on the map, but very far from the realities of individuals and the natural regions they contained. Concludes with the aforementioned decree, for the moment, a development originating from a very confusing set of entities, most case, frequent intake of random historical past of the regions, which were merely the outward manifestation of that fragmentation of power that the old regime inherited and preserved from the Middle Ages.

the province of Cuenca also has been obviously a process of evolution in its geographical composition over time, which is only a consequence.

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Without come to be an exception: all the others, his very name puts us on constantly track the assignment of their territories to the general supervision of a city with the unique strategic characteristics of Cuenca, is a cause of a military nature, expression of the needs of the Spain of the Reconquista, and even the exercise of real power difficulties in the early stages of the latter, subsequently went through.

Until the late fifteenth or early sixteenth notion of civil province escapes obligation to either a geographic space as fragmented politically as the Spain of the Five Kingdoms, you do not know, usually another space organizational system that clusters of villages around the towns and cities of the Crown or mastery of which were the administrative district or "earth." All this, while it is expression of approaches which makes the Christian advance in Muslim territory on the edge of the XII and XIII. It is still slow time of occupation of the territory, supported on certain municipalities, whose importance has been great or not in the past, but which now relies as landmarks of special defensive value. The repopulation of these places and their surrounding area is mainly done in two ways, either by recognizing its future residents a forum or giving them the estate of a nobleman to this attempt to bring in relevant subjects. Find examples of both approaches in our province. Cuenca and Huete may miss the first prototypes, being divided the "land" in both cities in the corresponding sexmería, while Moya Alarcon or show a corresponding organization of an elegant terrazzo, and this is his trait homogenization.

The turbulent Spain of the Middle Ages was, in fact, ideal circumstance to allow the monarch a proper exercise of authority over his subjects, and you must therefore wait for the consolidation of it, to be derived from the personal unification of the territory that made the Catholic Kings, to be watching the progressive operancia the administration that he gained as a result of the inclusion of real power brokers in those key points of the territory, showing special concern for the effective control of it.

most likely and motivations of a fiscal nature, no doubt were performed at this time the first attempts by the state administrative, proceeding in some cases the addition of these various government alluded to above, which, in itself, came also setting higher nature others called kingdoms or states when it was more or less extensive regions in which the nobility was the exclusive domain.

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The prestige of the city of Cuenca and the fact he finished second to leaving Huete is most likely due to the fact of having become Episcopal Headquarters 1183, also becoming the alleged heir to the use of the time of the ancient seats and Ercávica Segóbriga Gothic, with which it wanted to establish a canonical and historical continuity, since it was generalized ideology "restorative" he intended to do revive what had been destroyed by the Muslim invasion. The fact is, in short, that an ecclesiastical bureaucracy, already firmly established, the Roman use, over large regions of the peninsula for those dates, settle their real at that point, and since he proposed the task of controlling the space that had been progressively being added to the miter Cuenca, provided a basis of particular importance to use a precarious state whose government means would this be a manifestation among many others.

Guardianship and hierarchical land tax by the Church, it is evident that took place at the military occupation of it if you look at the level immediately to the bishop were standing in those places that we have previously referred to as special protective capacity. Huete, Cuenca, Moya and Alarcon, were turning on in as many venues archdeaconry, charge it with enough attention in the early medieval town hall, but eventually went to the category of mere honorary distinction, not governmental, but the economic preeminence made them highly prized in every age. The archpriest, initially immediate subordinates, peers, practically, in later times settled in villages of less importance, and also protect their management took place at the made from them by the civil power holders on the newly founded villages or occupied, placing, as far as possible, a cleric in every one of them.

joint examination of the maps I and V, made from testimonies of times very close, offers a remarkably similar shape for both, despite making reference to specific constituencies in each case. We must dispense with the peoples of de Molina, typical of the province, although annexed to the bishopric of Sigüenza, and a few, now located in Albacete, but added to the Cuenca jurisdiction then be real and act as border to the great estates of the Military Orders, located in the southern sub-plateau.

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Both maps show, moreover different organizational balance. While the former shows a greater complexity in the southern area with a larger number of subdivisions, second, by contrast, covers almost the entire area under the jurisdiction Mancha episcopal under the generic appellation Arciprestazgo de Alarcón. The domain division mayordomías Episcopal offers V the map was intended to obtain the maximum benefit in the economic and fiscal management of the ecclesiastical revenues, and therefore the image is strange that both the above, as the map VI presented in a more effective implementation Church or at least more intense on the areas north and west, to the same extent that the settlement had also been more careful about these areas, but none comes to mind explanation for this apparent neglect, which was controlled by an area that would be, well then, the richest in the diocese. Think of the relative remoteness of it in respect of the episcopal see, is entirely convincing, nor the special zeal with which could safeguard its preeminence the Archdeacon of Alarcón, as the case that higher income participants in the area were decimal council members, which for the same purpose, had adopted a fairly careful about the other areas also were.

However, a glance and greater consistency and balance in general presents the diocese, but does reaffirm the idea that all ecclesiastical bureaucracy and hierarchical subordination and control of the territory had achieved some degree of rationalization efficiency and therefore could not reach the civil administration until centuries later.

II The map is certainly far removed in time from those just discussed, but overall, its boundaries are to coincide. There's something about him that distinguishes it from I, if we compare the internal organization of space that both show, and this is putting us on notice about the new political winds that breathe the enlightened monarchy.

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not yet reflect a perfect spatial coherence, because if you look at who has tried to structure the administration and provincial government four games organized around the four main towns, Molina, Cuenca, Huete and San Clemente, still appear, nevertheless, enclaves of a party in another and these are the small spaces on the map are isolated within the party. However, even without ignoring the reality of the manorial system as an administrative and political disintegration, the Bourbon State seems to aspire to get their own identity to do so by an organization of territory that is unique, also designing a simple picture of it to achieve greater tax efficiency of its inhabitants at the same time, and it seeks to eliminate as many barriers as possible to traditional history. It is known that, notwithstanding such good intentions, yet Spain in the late eighteenth century had the chaotic image of a feudal regime still alive and active, although the State was getting the necessary streamlining administration, claiming an increasingly complex, as seen in the map III.

Neither of the two attempts on target is completely discharged, as if in case there are enclaves of some other provincial parties in both remains the absurdity of the keys in the neighboring provinces. Peoples perfectly integrated in the provincial area, and Torralba, Salmeron, Alcocer Valdeolivas or were included in Guadalajara, while the situation Huélamo him a Commendation santiaguista and villages of Haro, each jurisdiction Orders territory belonged to Toledo. A positive step seems to have been, however, with the elimination in 1804 of de Molina, linking it more logical to the territory of Guadalajara, which evidently was part of a more coherent way that a province that you saw a sharp separated. APA also pray in it a number of additions of La Mancha to the south towns which had increased the already considerable economic weight of the Party of San Clemente on the provincial assembly.

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Map IV, the product of the work of the Cortes of Cadiz, in accordance with Article 11 of the Constitution of 1812, shows the possibilities that the final abolition of the feudal regime offers outlining an organization that, without ignoring altogether this historical background that determined groups of peoples can, aspires to a more balanced structure and autonomous provincial parties multiplied and became immediate predecessor of the current subdivision that just 21 years apart and many of whom have also defects Share.

Our conclusion to these few strokes is necessarily simple. The province of Cuenca, even within the internal regional diversity of its own, we are shown as one of the least damage suffered, in our opinion, as a result of liberal restructuring of the country, for forming a unit acceptable historical consistency.

Emerging from the purposeful grouping of successive administrative territories whose peoples had given the plan repopulating homogeneity, as designated these lands, and lordships alfoces by the Sierra and the Tagus River to the north by the border of Aragon to the east and the territories of the Order of Santiago in the west and south, just on this line would fit and border hesitation fit, since the rest of the boundaries showed a permanent rigidity along the Old Regime and have continued to be decisive in the new, since except for the removal of objectionable Requena Party affiliation Levantine and the loss of a few villages fluctuating in this southern boundary, which have become part of the new province of Albacete, the outlines of the historical configuration of Cuenca territory have been met.

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