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Cartagena 1614.
400th anniversary of the expulsion of the Moriscos of the Kingdom of Murcia today arrived Wednesday at the port city for cross this historic moment and, specifically, how they lived in this county.
The Department of Culture and the Autonomous Community through the Archives, this exhibition will be organized in this location until May in the Artillery and which also works the Integra Foundation.
Cartagena has been chosen to inaugurate the exhibition for the important role he played in this era with shipments of the Moors from our port, explained the Councillor for Culture, Rosario Montero this morning during the presentation. With this show, we discover the consequences and causes of this expulsion by reviewing and analyzing this historic moment, he added.
The event was also attended this morning the curators of the exhibition, Pachi Amorós, and also head of the Municipal Archives of Cartagena, Alfonso Grandal, with the director of the Archive of the region of Murcia, Alfonso Jimenez, and the coordinator of Files Libraries and the City of Cartagena, Cayetano Tornell.
The exhibition will be in Cartagena until May 17, the day that the Night of Museums, which will participate File this exhibition is held. On June 10 will open in Murcia, where he remained until July 31, and thereafter, is expected to be exhibited in populations of the region upon request.
Through contemporary documents and explanatory panels show aims to disseminate the fundamental aspects of such a dramatic historical event.
In panels integration of the Moors is seen as a long process of losing their cultural identity and the reasons that led to that they were finally expelled addressed, while also reports the number of Moors residing in the region, and particularly in the Ricote Valley, the region where more abundant.
EL PUERTO DE CARTAGENA
In the case of Cartagena, its port activity was multiplied over the five year duration of shipments half Moorish Spain (1609-1614), with the (economic) advantages and disadvantages (mainly health) derived from this process .
Documents on its part, in addition to the status of Cartagena and its port at the time, show us the writings of donated goods, especially for daughters who promised with old Christians to remain on their land, letters from the king and other authorities relating to expulsion measures taken by the commissioners in the Moorish villas, etc..
To complement the information and better illustrate the time, has reserved a showcase with some everyday objects, from the funds of the Municipal Archaeological Museum of Cartagena, corresponding to the seventeenth century.
Digitalization "MINUTES OF CAPITULANTS
Furthermore, it has delivered this morning by the representative of the Integra Foundation, Onofre Molino, images of the last batch of records chapter of the City of Cartagena in Murcia have been digitized, and correspond to the eighteenth century .
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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