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Visigothic Toledo

Type Object Region Spain Time c. 531–700

Toledo became the Visigothic capital in 531 and the center of 7th-century Iberian politics, religion, and legal codification;…

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  1. c. 531–589Old city of Toledo (high ground on a bend of the Tagus) · ToledoThe kings moved the court from other seats to Toledo, using its defensible terrain and Roman city foundations to establish it as the kingdom's administrative center.
  2. 589Toledo Cathedral area (former council site) · ToledoReccared I presided over the Third National Council at Toledo, renouncing Arianism and converting to Catholicism, marking a fundamental turn in the kingdom's religious policy.
  3. c. 601–700Toledo royal palace and cathedral district · ToledoIn the 7th century Toledo continued as a center of legislation, church councils, and scholarly copying; in 654 Recceswinth promulgated the Liber Iudiciorum there, and the city became a symbol of medieval Iberian order.

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