Cabezabellosa de la Calzada

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Cabezabellosa de la Calzada is a Spanish municipality and town in the province of Salamanca, in the autonomous community of Castilla y León. It is integrated within the region of La Armuña. It belongs to the judicial district of Salamanca and to the La Armuña Commonwealth.

Its municipal area is made up of a single population center, it occupies a total area of 8.49 km² and according to the demographic data collected in the municipal register prepared by the INE in 2017, it has a population of 83 inhabitants.

Etymology

The name of Cabezabellosa is repeated applied to different places and towns; Thus, for example, in the place of Cabezabellosa in Cáceres. Riesco Chueca locates its origin in capillary metaphors, of the type of the French pelouse 'grass', starting from the Latin VILLŌSUS 'hairy, hirsute'. In such denominations, the frequent fact that the relief or rocky features are accompanied by a differentiated vegetation cover may have had an influence: small or large patches of isolated scrub, or dense or tangled herbaceous vegetation may have led to comparison with beards, hair or down.

Similar origin will have place names such as Peñavellosa and Valvellosa (Molinaferrera, León) and also the hill of Capeloso (La Faba, León) or the town of Capileira (Granada). One can also compare the place name, frequent in Portugal, Barbosa, which undoubtedly has a vegetable referent, in view of its suffix. The Vulgar Arabic ŠA‛RA, from which the Spanish jara comes, is the feminine of an adjective meaning 'downy, hairy', but it came to mean in North Africa and Al-Andalus 'forest, little grove' and then 'thicket, kill'. The metaphorical use in Cabezavellosa is based on a coordination of similes: a hillock is equated to a head and its vegetation, to its hair (understood as shaggy, curly or curly hair). Such a hypothesis, which implies a coordination or metaphorical reinforcement, also seems to occur in the abundant place-name Cabezamesada (in Toledo and other parts), to be understood as 'head whose fur seems to be torn off'; this always alluding to the vegetation cover of the hillock in question, and on the basis of the old mesar 'pull out the hairs'.

The determinative, and#34;de la Calzada#34;, will allude to the location of the town on the old road that linked Salamanca and Medina del Campo.

History

Founded by the kings of León in the Middle Ages, Cabezabellosa de la Calzada was framed in the quarter of Villoria of the jurisdiction of Salamanca, within the Kingdom of León, then called Cabeçavellosa. the creation of the current provinces in 1833, Cabezabellosa de la Calzada was framed in the province of Salamanca, within the Leonese Region.

Demographics

Graphic of demographic evolution of Cabezabellosa de la Calzada between 1900 and 2022

Source: Spanish National Statistical Institute - Graphical development by Wikipedia.

Calle Cantarranas y Ayuntamiento.

Administration and politics

Municipal elections