Santa Cruz
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Hagiotoponym from the Latin Sancta Crux, dedication to the True Cross applied to the foundational parish church of the place after the reconquest of 1240.
Hamlet of the Cordovan Campiña, old property of the Cordoba cathedral chapter. Preserves the Mudéjar 15th-century church and the traditional rural houses.
Evolution of the name
- Sancta Crux Christian Latin 5th–9th centuries
- Santa Cruz medieval Castilian from 1241
Glossary
- Cordoba cathedral chapter
- Cathedral ecclesiastical institution of Cordoba founded in 1238 after the Christian reconquest, with jurisdiction over the parishes of the old restored Mozarabic bishopric and extensive territorial patrimony. Its rural properties —including Santa Cruz, La Rambla, Castro del Río— sustained the cathedral economy until the Mendizábal disentailment (1836).
- Hagiotoponym
- A place name formed from a saint's name (from the Greek ἅγιος, hágios, "holy"). Frequent in the medieval Christian repopulation: Sansol (Sanctus Zoilus), Santander (Sancti Emeterii), Donostia (Done Sebastian).
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