Medina History

Costa de la Luz Details

 

It was known as ASID, Caesarina or Caesarina Augusta and was located in the Province Betica Further, belonging to the convent Hispalensis legal with capital Hispalis, which was the capital of the province in the Visigothic period.

In the year 712 the city was conquered by the Muslim military Musa, thus becoming one of the occupied territories during the Muslim invasion of the Iberian Peninsulaand the Muslim capital in the heart of Sidonia named Cora also known as Sadun.

Alfonso X el Sabio conquered the city on September 22 of 1264 and occupied the border against the Kingdom of Granada, which is why it appears in a medieval document with the name "de la Frontera" drawn by Medina-Sidonia Pedro Barrantes Maldonado.

During the conquest it was the site of several military orders including the Order of Santiago and the Order of Saint Mary. In 1440 it became part of the Lordship of the Dukes of Medina-Sidonia.

Titles and emblems

The title Very Noble and Very Loyal was given by King Philip IV in 1661 in recognition of the involvement of local residents in Medina-Sidonia in the attempt to recover the town from Portugal for the Spanish crown.

A Title of City was awarded by King Henry IV in the year 1472, at the request of the Duke of Medina-Sidonia, in response to the good services rendered by the village in the fight against the Moors.

The first settlements in the area of which date from the Bronze Age are represented by a large body of artefacts found in the Cerro de las Madres which include a large number of fragments of ceramics and and other hand-made useful lithics. It seems that these people were related to the Tartesos culture. The arrival of the settlers from Sidon Phoenicians, founded a city with the same name as this city on the ruins of the previous occupation.

The Romans occupied the entire peninsula which was formerly in the hands of the Carthaginians. Around the first century a new town centre was built that occupied what is now the Historical. Augusto Cesar area, the city became a Roman colony with the rights of optimal civitas jure.