Cea (, rarely ''Ceia'') is a municipality located in the
province of León
León (, ; ; ; ) is a province of northwestern Spain in the northern part of the Region of León and in the northwestern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León.
About one quarter of its population of 463,746 (2018) lives in the c ...
,
Castile and León
Castile and León is an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in northwestern Spain. Castile and León is the largest autonomous community in Spain by area, covering 94,222 km2. It is, however, sparsely populated, with a pop ...
, Spain. According to the 2010
census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...
(
INE), the municipality has a population of 530 inhabitants.
Historically, there was a
Sephardic Jewish
Sephardic Jews, also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the historic Jewish communities of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and their descendant ...
community in Cea, first recorded in 1110. Most of the Jews maintained professions in agriculture. In 1492, the community fled during the
expulsion of the Jews from Spain
The Expulsion of Jews from Spain was the expulsion of practicing Jews following the Alhambra Decree in 1492, which was enacted to eliminate their influence on Spain's large ''converso'' population and to ensure its members did not revert to Judais ...
.
Cea is mentioned in the 10th century text ''
Nodicia de kesos
In the early 20th century, Zacarías García Villada discovered the ''Nodicia de kesos'' on the backside of a tenth-century parchment recording a gift to the monastery of San Justo y Pastor, which was located in either Chozas de Abajo or Ardón ...
''.
Villages
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Bustillo de Cea
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Saelices del Río
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San Pedro de Valderaduey
References
External links
La provincia de León y sus comarcas; Cea-Campos
Municipalities in the Province of León
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