Vega de Tera (Vega de Tera)
Vega de Tera is a municipality located in the province of Zamora, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 470 inhabitants.
Integrated in the region of Benavente and Los Valles, it is located 79 kilometers from the provincial capital. The municipal area is crossed by the Autovía de las Rías Bajas A-52 and the national road N-525 between pK 34 and 46. Its municipal area includes three other localities:
The relief of the municipality is predominantly flat, being characterized by the valley of the Tera river, which runs through the southeast of the municipality from west to east, including part of the Nuestra Señora del Agavanzal reservoir. The north of the municipality is somewhat more irregular, with scattered elevations. The altitude of the territory ranges from 855 meters at an elevation to the west to 736 meters on the banks of the Tera River. The town stands 749 meters above sea level.
* Calzada de Tera with a parish church in honor of San Jorge and hermitage dedicated to San Vicente Mártir, its two most important monuments. It is located 4 km from Vega de Tera, where the town hall is.
* Junquera de Tera with its well-known 'El Rollo' square and on the other side of the road, its park and church. 3 km from Vega de Tera.
* Milla de Tera, located 4 km from Vega de Tera and a scarce kilometer from Junquera and which, like this one, has its most outstanding building in its parish church.
Integrated in the region of Benavente and Los Valles, it is located 79 kilometers from the provincial capital. The municipal area is crossed by the Autovía de las Rías Bajas A-52 and the national road N-525 between pK 34 and 46. Its municipal area includes three other localities:
The relief of the municipality is predominantly flat, being characterized by the valley of the Tera river, which runs through the southeast of the municipality from west to east, including part of the Nuestra Señora del Agavanzal reservoir. The north of the municipality is somewhat more irregular, with scattered elevations. The altitude of the territory ranges from 855 meters at an elevation to the west to 736 meters on the banks of the Tera River. The town stands 749 meters above sea level.
* Calzada de Tera with a parish church in honor of San Jorge and hermitage dedicated to San Vicente Mártir, its two most important monuments. It is located 4 km from Vega de Tera, where the town hall is.
* Junquera de Tera with its well-known 'El Rollo' square and on the other side of the road, its park and church. 3 km from Vega de Tera.
* Milla de Tera, located 4 km from Vega de Tera and a scarce kilometer from Junquera and which, like this one, has its most outstanding building in its parish church.
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Anatomically modern humans first arrived in the Iberian Peninsula around 42,000 years ago. The ancient Iberian and Celtic tribes, along with other pre-Roman peoples, dwelled the territory maintaining contacts with foreign Mediterranean cultures. The Roman conquest and colonization of the peninsula (Hispania) ensued, bringing the Romanization of the population. Receding of Western Roman imperial authority ushered in the migration of different non-Roman peoples from Central and Northern Europe with the Visigoths as the dominant power in the peninsula by the fifth century. In the early eighth century, most of the peninsula was conquered by the Umayyad Caliphate, and during early Islamic rule, Al-Andalus became a dominant peninsular power centered in Córdoba. Several Christian kingdoms emerged in Northern Iberia, chief among them León, Castile, Aragon, Portugal, and Navarre made an intermittent southward military expansion, known as Reconquista, repelling the Islamic rule in Iberia, which culminated with the Christian seizure of the Emirate of Granada in 1492. Jews and Muslims were forced to choose between conversion to Catholicism or expulsion, and eventually the converts were expelled through different royal decrees.
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ISO | Currency | Symbol | Significant figures |
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EUR | Euro | € | 2 |
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EU | Basque language |
CA | Catalan language |
GL | Galician language |
OC | Occitan language |
ES | Spanish language |