Vilanova
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Transparent Romance compound Villa Nova ('new town'), applied by medieval repopulation to late medieval foundations on previously unpopulated or reorganised settlements. This Vilanova, dependent on the Miño council in the Betanzos estuary, is distinguished from other peninsular Vilanovas (Vilanova de Arousa, Villanueva del Conde) by the regional context.
The formula villa nova, already discussed at Vilanova de Arousa, was applied throughout Romania to late foundations. This Eume Vilanova is documented from the 13th century as agricultural hamlet of the Andrade seigneury. It preserves the medieval rural ensemble with emblazoned houses from the 16th to 18th centuries.
Evolution of the name
- villa nova late Latin 5th–9th centuries
- Vilanova medieval Galician from the 12th century
Glossary
- Andrade Seigneury
- Galician noble lineage of the Andrade family, originated in the 12th century and consolidated between the 14th and 15th centuries as one of the great seigneuries of northern Galicia. Fernán Pérez de Andrade O Bo (1342–1397), the most famous of the lineage, held the seigneury of the Eume and Pontedeume regions and ordered the construction of the Andrade castle (1369) and the Cabanas and Pontedeume bridges over the Eume. The lineage became extinct in the 17th century by female line.
- Repopulation
- A medieval process by which the Christian kingdoms of the northern Iberian peninsula resettled territories reconquered from al-Andalus. Generates a whole layer of repopulation toponyms: Bercianos (those from El Bierzo), Navarrete (little Navarre), Castellanos, Gallegos.
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