Historical place profile
Solucar Albayda
A Spanish village located to the west of Sevilla, Spain. In the thirteenth century, it belonged to the kingdom of Alfonso X. The modern toponym is a derivation of the Arabic toponym "Solucar Al-bayda", meaning "the white one". The site was known as Sanlúcar de Albaida until it took the definitive name of Albaida de Aljarafe.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:113543066
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:113543066
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 37.425499, -6.165057
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A Spanish village located to the west of Sevilla, Spain. In the thirteenth century, it belonged to the kingdom of Alfonso X. The modern toponym is a derivation of the Arabic toponym "Solucar Al-bayda", meaning "the white one". The site was known as Sanlúcar de Albaida until it took the definitive name of Albaida de Aljarafe.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies
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