Open AccessOcaña, Nambroca, Recas y otros nombres de lugar ¿repoblación vascófona en Toledo?
Author(s) -
Jairo Javier García Sánchez
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
revista de filología española
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1988-8538
pISSN - 0210-9174
DOI - 10.3989/rfe.2003.v83.i1/2.124
Subject(s) - repopulation , certainty , toponymy , humanities , genealogy , ethnology , history , geography , art , philosophy , archaeology , epistemology , genetics , stem cell , haematopoiesis , biology
The analysis of some place-names in the province of Toledo, such as Ocaña, Nambroca Recas, allows us to postulate with some certainty the existence of a Basque-speaking group among the Christian repopulation of this territory. The placenames studied here manifiest in different ways that such a fact can be demonstrated through toponymy, and all these names inevitably lead us to the same historical conclusion: they are the consequence of Basque-speaking repopulation that had already been demonstrated in other neighbouring territories but had not been pointed out in such a relevant place as Toledo. The lack of written documents is once more compensated for by the valuable testimony offered by place-names