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| Cid's Spain © Mark Wade |
City on the river Deva, 119 km from and capital of Leon and Asturias. The main cathedral was San Salvador in the Cid's day. The palace of Santa Maria de Naranco, built by Ramiro I in the 9th Century, is the jewel of Spanish pre-Romanesque architecture..
Latitude: 43.35. Longitude: -5.83.
To Don Alfonso he gave the kingdom of Leon, and in Asturias as far as the river Deva, which runs by Oviedo, and part of Campos as far as Carrion and the river Pisuerga, with the border, which contained the dioceses of Zamora, Salamanca, and Ciudad Rodrigo, and the city of Astorga, and other lands in Galicia, with the town of Zebreros.