The city of Zaragoza has more than two thousand years of history. The oldest documented population dates from the 7th century BC. C., in the remains of some settlements from the end of the Bronze Age. It was founded on the Iberian settlement of Salduie, between 25 and 12 BC. C., most probably the 14 a. C., 1 an immune colony, Caesaraugusta, in honor of César Augusto. After a frank decline in the 3rd and 4th centuries after Christ, the city continued to maintain its influence under Visigothic domination, being a prominent episcopal center.
The arrival of Islam produced a new period of splendor materialized in the Taifa of Saraqusta, an independent kingdom that in the second half of the 11th century brought the Andalusian civilization to one of its highest levels in philosophy and architecture.
After the conquest of the city by Alfonso I the Battler in 1118, it would become the capital of the Kingdom of Aragon, and it was also the seat where the kings of the Crown of Aragon were crowned. Successive transformations in the late Middle Ages and the Modern Age had an unfortunate end in the Zaragoza Sites of 1808, with the practical destruction of the city and the subsequent demographic catastrophe.
However, from the second half of the 19th century to the present day, Zaragoza has continued to thrive, and is currently the fifth largest city in Spain in demographic terms.
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