Quintana del Pino
BurgosCastilla y León
Romance compound. Quintana, from the Latin quintana ('property whose rent was the fifth of the harvest'), plus del Pino, reference to the surrounding pinewood.
Pastoral hamlet of the Palentine plateau, halt between the Cantabrian and the Duero Meseta. Medieval administrative toponym that documents the Castilian quintos system.
Evolution of the name
- quintana medieval Latin 5th–9th centuries
- Quintana del Pino medieval Castilian from the 10th century
Glossary
- Castilian quintos system
- Early medieval Castilian tributary regime consisting of a rent equivalent to one-fifth (20%) of the harvest that the farmer paid to the lord of the land. The application of the system left the abundant toponymy in Quintana, Quintanilla and Quintanal throughout all of Castile, especially in the northwest quadrant.
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