Province of Valladolid - History

History

The first stable population that settled in the present province belongs to the people of the pre-roman Vaccaei (spanish name: vacceos), who were residents of very advanced culture and, as the rest of Celtic peoples arrived to the peninsula from the north of Europe (there is that indicate who also occupied territories that correspond to another provinces). n the year 178 a. C. The romans conquered the territory. Thus the lands that make up the current province came under occupation of these, up to the barbarian invasions of the early V century A.D. The province came under the control of new Visigothic Kingdom. After the invasion of the Iberian peninsula by the Muslims in the year 711, they arrived in these lands just a year later, in 712. Later this area was the subject of battles between the Muslims and the Christian Kingdom of León in the first half of the eleventh century. Valladolid was founded in the year 1072 by Count Pedro Ansúrez. From here its history was linked to that of the Crown of Castile. Did not know any invasions (by removing wars and dynastic family issues) until the revolt of the comuneros in the year 1520, which ended with the ringleaders of that revolt publicly executed in Villalar de los Comuneros. Then it lived – and experienced – the War of the Spanish Succession (1700–1715), the Peninsular War against France (1808–1814), the Invasion of Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis in 1823 (that was the fastest and least of all the bloody wars). On Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) Valladolid was the "most significant regional nucleus" of Falangism in the Spanish Second Republic, managing the second-highest provincial vote for the party in the otherwise dismal (for Falangists) elections of 1936, just behind Cadiz. The province was controlled by Franco's Nationalists throughout the Civil War. During the Franco period there was an exodus from the rural countryside to the industrial cities, and after, when the arrival of democracy in Spain, finally the province was part of the new autonomous community of Castile and Leon in the early 80.

Nowadays is one of the best provinces in the country in terms of health, education, security, cultural and linguistic heritage and economic (fifth province with the largest index of greater convergence with the European Union).