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5 eras · 546–2026 · 17 places

Toledo and La Mancha — Talavera, Aranjuez

Toledo, Talavera de la Reina, Aranjuez, Cuenca, Ocaña. Which empire held this ground in which years — and, the part that matters, which archive that means.

Whose archive this ground was

YearsWho held itWhose archive that means
546–711 Visigothic Kingdom: capital at Toledo no registers survive

Before registers. Toledo was the Visigothic capital from 546, possibly earlier, and a council confirmed the archbishop of Toledo's primacy in 681.
711–1085 Umayyad rule and the Taifa of Toledo no registers survive

Tariq bin Ziyad captured Toledo in 711 or 712 and Abd-ar-Rahman III took it in 932. The Taifa of Toledo formed in the early 11th century.
1085–1561 Kingdom of Toledo, Crown of Castile PARES · FamilySearch

Alfonso VI of León took Toledo on 25 May 1085. The city rose against taxes in 1449, and its population grew from 31,930 in 1528 to 56,270 in 1561.
1561–1980 Spain: the court at Madrid PARES · FamilySearch · Geneanet

Philip II moved the royal court to Madrid in 1561. The Madrid-Aranjuez railway was opened by Isabella II on 12 June 1858.
1980–2026 Castilla-La Mancha PARES · FamilySearch · Geneanet

In the 1980s Toledo became the de facto capital of Castilla-La Mancha.

The rings are approximate — deliberately. They exist to shade which filing system a place fell under, not to adjudicate a border. A place near a ring's edge should be checked against both neighbours.

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17 places on this ground

47 FamilySearch collections reach this ground

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