Amaya (Burgos)

Amaya is an archaeological site on a populated in antiquity and the Middle Ages hills in the province of Burgos in the northeastern part of the autonomous northern Spanish region of Castile -Leon.

In ancient times it was known as Amaia and Ammaia. In the early Middle Ages it was the capital of Cantabria.

History

Augustus was set up in Amaias near an army camp, ( 29-19 BC), the Roman side served as a base during the Cantabrian wars.

680 was founded under the Visigothic King of Hispania Erwig the Duchy of Cantabria and Amaia became its capital. 714 Tariq ibn Ziyad took one and ibn Musa Nusayr Amaia, which had them 712 ever arise. Later Amaia went into a borderland of the Asturian power range and has been attacked several times of Moorish territory. Not least because of the place was rather deserted at this time, although he is said to be 780 bishopric.

A Ordoños I. command from the year 856 expletive, let Roderich ( Rodrigo ) II, First Earl ( 850-873 ) of Castile, the abandoned place 860 repopulate as Patricia Amaya.

Under Ramiro II ( 931-951 ), King of León, Amaya was finally restored.

989 soldiers took the later caliph Abd ar -Rahman IV the city. Then, the boundary shifted to the south, and Amaya was abandoned. Its inhabitants settled in the surrounding valleys down, and the place fell into disrepair, so the exact location of the old Amaia sources was unrecognizable.