Villamesías

Villamesías, Spain
municipality
Interactive map of Villamesías, Spain
CountrySpain
Autonomous communityExtremadura
ProvinceCáceres
MunicipalityVillamesías
Area
 • Total
46 km2 (18 sq mi)
Population
 (2025-01-01)[1]
 • Total
271
 • Density5.9/km2 (15/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Villamesías is a municipality located in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain. According to the 2006 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 344 inhabitants.

History

A funerary inscription in Latin, dating between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE, was discovered in Villamesías. The epitaph commemorates Alucius Roscius, a Jewish freedman.[2]

Town hall and plaza

See also

References

  1. ^ National Statistics Institute (13 December 2025). "Municipal Register of Spain of 2025".
  2. ^ Collar, Anna, ed. (2013), "The Jewish Diaspora in the west: the rabbinic reforms, ethnicity and the (re?)activation of Jewish identity", Religious Networks in the Roman Empire: The Spread of New Ideas, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 173, ISBN 978-1-107-04344-2, retrieved 2026-03-18{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)


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