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Monuments of the citadel of Minorca, balearic islands
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| along the centuries, the different inhabitants have given you diverse names: Jamma, Nura, Minerva, Iamo, Iamona, Medina Minurka. But it went as of the 1287 , as a result of the incorporation of Minorca to the Christian and European culture with the conquest of Alfonso III, when it is imposed the current name, |topónimo| that, etymologically, it comes of the |civitatella| Latin, diminutive of |civitas| ( city ). in spite of it, this names already throve between the population romanized and the Mozarabic |menorquines| previous to the colonization carried out for the corona of Aragon.[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/sindy_nero/1377668323/in/set-72157601998630870/Photo: Sindy Nero[/url] |
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