Cossonda until the incorporation in the Kingdom of Aragon (Until 1119)

<body bgcolor="#000000"> <div class=Section1> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt"> <span lang="EN-GB"><font size="2" color="#FFFFFF">First it's necessary to say that by lack of historical documentation we cannot speak of Cossonda like so until 1142, that first mention is his, in the Law of Daroca, if we did not count the appointment of Al-Udri in the 11<sup>th</sup> century calling it Quswilda, reason why we do not have left another remedy in this chapter that to have to speak of historical suppositions, since we lack the date of foundation, and to define Cossonda how "the zone" until year 714, arrival of the Muslim invasion to these lands, and from 714 to 1119 like "Quswilda" date of the incorporation of this one in the Kingdom of Aragon. So with these explanations we go ahead. </font></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal> <span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; '><![if !supportEmptyParas]><font size="2" color="#FFFFFF"> </font><![endif]></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt"> <font color="#FFFFFF"> <span lang="EN-GB"><font size="2">We already know the population the zone in the Age of Bronze by the nuclei of silex that have been in the towns of around, although these findings are loose and they cannot give reason to the establishment of sedentary nuclei. On year 1700 b.C. to axes in the environs of Carignena ("La Vega") and a micro burin in the Aldehuela of Santa Cruz are attributed, in the valley of the Griu. Of rock art closest known until now they are the sets of "el Cerro Felío" and "el Barranco del Mortero" in Alacon and of</font></span><font size="2"></font><span lang="EN-GB"><font size="2">some that another sample in Lumpiaque. On the interment forms they exist in caves, in Calcena and Torrijo of the Canyada, under rock in the environs of Calatayud and grave to tumular in Mezquita of Loscos. These data can give a small idea us of the life of the first settlers of the zone.</font></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal> <span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; '><![if !supportEmptyParas]><font size="2" color="#FFFFFF"> </font><![endif]></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt"> <span lang="EN-GB"><font size="2" color="#FFFFFF">On year 1000 b.C. can already be spoken of encounter in Muel, Alfamen, Longares, Villanueva of Orba, Aguilon, Langa, Mainar, Villareal of Orba, which gives a density us of superior population mainly and  a sample of sedentary peoples in the zone.</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt">  </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt"> <font color="#FFFFFF"> <span lang="EN-GB"><font size="2">During the First Age of Iron already it is spoken of a true culture in the Middle Valley of the Ebro, that would include until the zone, with towns in Muel and Villanueva of Orba and necropolis in Epila, located in hills. On the 500 b.C. or can be spoken of towns in the zone like the sedetans, lusons and the belaiscum or belum being Cossonda in the imaginary border of these two last. They count the chronicles that dressed, in addition to </font></span> <font size="2">  </font> <span lang="EN-GB"><font size="2">other clothes, with short trousers and averages, that seem to be the beginning of our traditional clothes, and which meats and wines mixed with honey were fed with. These towns were buried in necropolis and got to exist true cities in the zone with Nertobriga, between Almunia, Calatorao and Ricla, where currencies with the Iberian alphabet are coined.</font></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:1.0cm'> <span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <font size="2" color="#FFFFFF"> </font><![endif]></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt"> <span lang="EN-GB"><font size="2" color="#FFFFFF">Many historians give  on the 3<sup>rd</sup> b.C. century the apparent origin of the vineyards in the zone, although thinks that they are much more old. In year 197 b.C. or we can begin to speak of romanization since the zone is located in the Hispania Citerior, although this one always will be the more concrete in the valley of the Xalon and the one of the Orba, with Villae in Calatorao, the Almunia or Muel, being Cossonda how an island but without arriving at the marginality of the Pyrenean or the Mountains of Gudar.</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt">  </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt"> <span lang="EN-GB"><font size="2" color="#FFFFFF">In this time they are Roman necropolis in Panissa, in Muel and Calatorao, and two main Roman Routes cross the zone, the one from Emerita Augusta to Caesar Augusta and  from Laminum to Caesar Augusta. According to Traggia, settlers of then spoke to you of "black" wine instead of red and of the white wine. So that one did not spoil to them very added varied products to him, how the plaster and the pitch. As still the fermentation were not known in barrel, that was a Gallic invention, the wine in enormous jars was conserved, called you hurt, where it was until being packaged for the sale or transports in jars and amphoras with carrot form, able each one of an average of 26 litters. The wine drank in wide glasses of little depth, to facilitate a last movement and was appreciated by its psychotropics and medicinal virtues, in addition to condiment diverse plates, being used like remedy for the evils  of stomach, veggie, sciatic and others and to drink because she gave heat and she fed, like until almost the present time, more than by gastronomical pleasing.</font></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:1.0cm'> <span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <font size="2" color="#FFFFFF"> </font><![endif]></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt"> <span lang="EN-GB"><font size="2" color="#FFFFFF">In year 27 b.C., with the creation of Caesar Augusta gets up the zone to the Legal Convent Caesaraugustanum, within the Province of the Hispania Citerior Tarraconensis. </font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt"> <font color="#FFFFFF"> <font size="2">  </font> <span lang="EN-GB"><font size="2">On half of the I<sup>st</sup> century, according to evangelise Geronimus of Saint Joseph the zone and is created the Episcopal Seat of Carignena, and in year 103, according to the Chronicle of Aubert, he is bishop Saint Aradicianum. In second half of the 3<sup>rd</sup> century is transferred this Seat to Lerida, belonging the zone to Saragossa.</font></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:1.0cm'> <span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <font size="2" color="#FFFFFF"> </font><![endif]></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt"> <span lang="EN-GB"><font size="2" color="#FFFFFF">In year 293 the political reform of Dioclecianum is made and the zone continues belonging the Tarraconensis province. At the beginning of the 5<sup>th </sup> century the westgothics invasions are already a fact, opens a diffuse period in  history, since we only know that in year 586 the Westgothic Kingdom is divided in provinces and the zone is fitted in the one of Iberia, and that at the beginning of the 8<sup>th</sup> century the zone was nailed in the Territoria Caesaraugustanum.</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt">  </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt"> <span lang="EN-GB"><font size="2" color="#FFFFFF">In the spring of the year 714 Cossonda it is gotten up  in the new Muslim order, by Musa ibn Nusayr, belonging to Superior Mark and the District of Saracosta. One assumes that the population had to continue being then the same one as soon as human colonization existed and the old religion of the settlers was respected for whom it loved or they became to the Muslim Religion, but in Cossonda we do not know with certainty which happened although by its situation outside wide valley and zone of communication we think that their settlers continued with their mozarabian language and Christian religion happening to the vassalages of towns like  Almonacid that yes that became.</font></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><![if !supportEmptyParas]><font size="2" color="#FFFFFF"> </font><![endif]></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt"> <span lang="EN-GB"><font size="2" color="#FFFFFF">In the middle of the 8<sup>th</sup> century the division is made in Qoras. Quswilda is in the qora of Arth and of year 852 to the 862 it belongs to the dominions of the Banu Qasi. In year 873, after a emiral campaign that pass by the town, it falls in dominion of the tuyibies. In year 935 one razzia of Abdarrahman III happens through Quswilda.</font></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:1.0cm'> <span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <font size="2" color="#FFFFFF"> </font><![endif]></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt"> <span lang="EN-GB"><font size="2" color="#FFFFFF">In the century 11<sup>th</sup> Al-Udri in its descriptions Quswilda mentions. This one happens to comprise of the Huidi Taifa of Saracosta (Banu Hud Kingdom ) and in 1110 it happens to the dominion of the almoravids.</font></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:1.0cm'> <span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <font size="2" color="#FFFFFF"> </font><![endif]></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt"> <span lang="EN-GB"><font size="2" color="#FFFFFF">Finally, to say that in 1119 Alphonse I of Aragon incorporates Quswilda to his kingdom.</font></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:1.0cm'> <span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <font size="2" color="#FFFFFF"> </font><![endif]></span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;text-indent:27.0pt"> <font size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"> <a title="Push here to see the second chapter" style="color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" target="_top" href="onlytext/history2.htm">Cossonda in the Kingdom of Aragon</a></span></font><span lang="EN-GB"><font size="2" color="#FFFFFF"> (1119-1707)</font></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;text-indent:27.0pt"> <font size="2"><span lang="EN-GB"> <a title="Push here tosee the third chapter" style="color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: underline; text-underline: single" target="_top" href="onlytext/history3.htm">Cossonda in the Modern Spanish State</a></span></font><span lang="EN-GB"><font size="2" color="#FFFFFF"> (1707-1936)</font></span></p> </div> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal align="center" style="text-indent: 1cm"> </p> <p class=MsoNormal align="center" style="text-indent: 1cm"> </p> <p class=MsoNormal align="center" style="text-indent: 1cm"><span lang=PT style='mso-ansi-language:PT'> <font size="5" color="#FFFFFF"><o:p> <font color="#FFFFFF"> <a title="Push here to return to the History of Cossonda" href="onlytext/history.htm">RETURN</a></font></o:p></font></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align="center" style="text-indent: 1cm"> </p> <p class=MsoNormal align="center" style="text-indent: 1cm"><span lang=PT style='mso-ansi-language:PT'> <font size="3" color="#FFFFFF"><o:p> <font color="#FFFFFF"> <a title="Push here to go to the original version" target="_top" href="history1.htm">To go to the original version</a></font></o:p></font></span></p> </div> <p> </p> </body>