Villasana de Mena
BurgosCastilla y León
Romance compound. Villasana, from villa sana ('healthy town'), medieval Romance denomination for settlements on aired meadow without marshes. De Mena places the town in the eponymous valley.
Historical head of the Mena valley, region of the Burgalese Merindades. Charter from Sancho IV (1287). Historical ensemble declared in 1995.
Evolution of the name
- villa sana medieval Latin 5th–9th centuries
- Villasana de Mena medieval Castilian from the 12th century
Glossary
- Carta puebla
- A medieval legal document by which a lord or king founded a new settlement, granting privileges and exemptions in exchange for occupying and defending the territory.
- Mena Valley
- Historical region of the northeastern end of Burgos, between the Ordunte (to the north) and Sálvada (to the south) ranges, traditionally linked by geography and culture more to the Vizcayan Encartaciones than to the rest of Castile. Its foral autonomy was preserved until the 19th century. The N-629 road and the La Robla-Bilbao railway cross the valley from north to south.
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