Fiscal

Camino Catalán por San Juan de la Peña

HuescaAragón

Toponym derived from the Latin fiscalis ('belonging to the royal treasury'), applied to lands of early medieval royal property with specific fiscal regime.

Sobrarbe town with early medieval royal regime documented from 1015 in cartularies of the San Pedro de Siresa monastery. Head of the Broto valley, historical passage towards the Pyrenean passes.

Evolution of the name

  1. fiscalis medieval Latin 5th–9th centuries
  2. Fiscal medieval Aragonese from the 10th century

Languages of origin

Themes

Origin status

confirmed

Glossary

Medieval fiscal lands
Legal category of early medieval public law (6th-11th centuries) referring to immovable properties of royal ownership whose rents corresponded to the royal treasury. The toponymic denomination Fiscal preserves this category fossilised in dozens of peninsular toponyms: Fiscal (Huesca), Fiscalillo (Burgos), Fiscalejo (Salamanca).

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Camino Catalán por San Juan de la Peña

  1. Santa Cruz de la Serós
  2. San Juan de la Peña
  3. Jaca
  4. Sabiñánigo
  5. Yebra de Basa
  6. Fiscal
  7. Boltaña
  8. Janovas
  9. Aínsa
  10. Naval
  11. Alquézar
  12. Barbastro
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