Opposite Valencia and La Fontañera, in Portugal, is Marvão, whose anthroponymic origin, in reference to the Muladí Ibn Marwan al-Yil’liqui ‘El gallego’, founder of Badajoz, reminds us of the common Muslim rule of these lands within the Taifa of Badajoz. The appellative ‘Galician’ referred to his family origins in the north of the Iberian Peninsula.

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DOELP = Machado, José Pedro. Dicionário onomástico etimológico da língua portuguesa. Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 2003, 3ª ed.