Plasencia

Plasencia is a walled market city inside the province of Caceres, Extremadura, Western Spain. As of 2013, it has a populace of 41,047. Situated on the financial institution of the Jerte River, Plasencia has a ancient zone that may be a outcome of the metropolis's strategic vicinity alongside the Silver Route, or Ruta de los angeles Plata. Since the 15th century, the noblemen of the vicinity started out to move to Plasencia, defining its modern-day look. Although Plasencia turned into not based until 1186, pieces of pottery observed in Boquique’s Cave provide proof that this territory become inhabited long earlier than. Pascual Madoz's dictionary details that this historic territory, both known as Ambroz or Ambracia, became firstly given the name Ambrosia earlier than turning into Plasencia.
In the same year that the town changed into based, Alfonso VIII of Castile gave the city its independence and the Diocese of Plasencia changed into created. The original motto of the town, Ut placeat Deo et Hominibus, method to please God and man. Ten years after its beginning, Plasencia changed into taken over by way of the Almohad Caliphate, a Moroccan Berber-Muslim dynasty that dominated the Iberian peninsula throughout a great deal of the 12^th century. King Alfonso VIII and his forces recaptured the city within the identical day.