Caudete
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History
Following its Christian conquest in 1240, Caudete became part of the Crown of Castile as result of the Treaty of Almizra, featuring a mudéjar population.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". It later passed to the Crown of Aragon, and the first Christian settlers arrived after a charter was granted in 1305.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
There were ongoing disputes between Caudete and nearby Villena over control of the Alhorines Valley, an important wheat-growing area.
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Caudete, which favoured the Bourbon side at the early stages of the War of the Spanish Succession, eventually came to support the Austracist side.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". As a result of siding with the loser faction, Caudete lost his local autonomy and was annexed to Villena in 1707.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Until the 19th century the dominant language in the municipality was Valencian with some aspects of Aragonese. Since then the region has undergone forceful linguistic substitution by Spanish similar to what happened in the Valencian comarca of Vega Baja del Segura. Today the principal language is Spanish with some Valencian words. Caudete is famous for its Moros y Cristianos festival in September.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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