Alcañices

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It gives its name to the famous treaty between Dionisio I of Portugal and Fernando IV of Castile, which fixed the border in 1297. As for the toponym, Alcañices may come from the ár. al-kana’is “the churches”, in reference to Christian churches named in Arabic by Muslims. But it is also possible to think of an etym cannetu “cañar, cañedo”, a collective formation derived from canna “cane”, Arabised with the addition of the Arabic article Al-. The proximity to Alcañices of a stream called Valdecañizas seems to favour the phytonymic hypothesis.

 

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García Sánchez, Jairo Javier (2022): “Más de un millar de km de interés toponímico. Recorrido por los nombres de la Raya”, eHumanista: IVITRA, 22, pp. 284-299

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