judería
121ÁVILA — ÁVILA, city in Castile, central Spain. Jews are mentioned there in 1085. The first documentary evidence of a Jewish community is from 1144. In 1176 the king granted one third of the taxes levied on the Jews to the bishop of Ávila. However, they… …
122JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA — JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA, city in Andalusia, southwest Spain. No information is available on Jews under Muslim rule. Under Christian domination, it had an important Jewish community. Jerez was captured from the Muslims by Alphonso X of Castile in… …
123SPAIN — (in Hebrew at first אספמיא then ספרד), country in S.W. Europe. The use of the word Spain to denote Sepharad has caused some confusion in research. Spain came into being long after the Jews had been expelled from the Crowns of Castile and Aragon,… …
124TETUÁN — (ancient name, Tamuda), town and port in N. Morocco . It was destroyed by the Spanish in 1399 but rebuilt a few years before 1492 by an Andalusian chieftain, al Mandārī, who used it exclusively as a refuge for Moors and some Spanish Jews. The… …
125TOLEDO — TOLEDO, city in Castile, central spain ; capital of Castile until 1561. Early Jewish Settlement and Visigothic Period There is no substantive information available on the beginnings of the Jewish settlement in Toledo, which was only a small… …
126Mellah — Remants of the Jewish mellah in Essaouira. A mellah (Arabic ملاح, probably from the word ملح, Arabic for salt or מלח, Hebrew for salt (both pronunced Melach)) is a walled Jewish quarter of a city in Morocco, an analogue of the European ghetto.… …
127Aljama — is a Spanish language term of Arabic language origin used in old official documents to designate the self governing communities of Moors and Jews living under Spanish Christian rule. In some present day Spanish cities, the name is still applied… …
128Kingdom of Galicia — For the Kingdom of Galicia, now part of Poland and Ukraine, see Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. Kingdom of Galicia pt (Galician) Galliciense Regnum (Latin) …
