Aldeadávila de la Ribera, which maintains the memory of its repopulation of Avila origin, also including the name of the region of La Ribera, more popularly known as Las Arribes.

Possibly from a personal name *Formosellus, also in genitive, which would be a variant with suffixation with respect to well attested anthroponyms such as Formosinus, Formosus, from the Latin formosus “beautiful”. See Riesco Chueca (539-540). Cited bibliography:  -Riesco Chueca, Pascual. Toponimia de la provincia de Zamora. Panorámica documental, comparativa y descriptiva. Zamora: Diputación de Zamora,…

Name of a village on the Duero where there is a famous waterfall, the Salto de Saucelle. Llorente Maldonado de Guevara (119-120) pointed out that it is probable that this name comes from a genitive *sabucelli (“of the little elder tree”), from sabucellus, but it cannot be ruled out that it is an anthroponym, as…

La Fregeneda, whose name is a group of ash trees (lat. fraxinus) and this is a tree with a notable presence in the toponymy around La Raya. The Salamancan toponym, which reminds us of Fregenal de la Sierra in Badajoz due to the Leonese influence in its result, is very close to the Portuguese Freixo…

Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, of obvious motivation, although it is not certain whether this Rodrigo was Count Rodrigo González Girón, who may be behind the name of Ciudad Rodrigo.

Escarigo, from an Ascário, Ascaricu, a Germanic personal name with the etymological value of ‘warrior’.

From lat. verminosa ‘full of worms, wormy’.

It shows a form characteristic of the west of the peninsula, with a diminishing diphthong typical of Galician and Portuguese. The voice can have different values, but, in general, it refers to ‘land reclaimed from the mountain by the council, which is grazed for grazing or sporadic farming’. Vid. García Sánchez (2022, 158-159). Cited bibliography: …

False hagionym with a complement alluding to the repopulation of people from Galicia, as in Gallegos de Argañán in the foreground or further north, in Zamora, in Gallegos del Campo. The toponyms that recall the origin of the first settlers are very frequent, as the name has been constituted as a toponym or has been…

Puerto Seguro, in the foothills of the Arribes, is the result of a retoponymization -until 1916 it was Barba de Puerco-, and the same happens with its neighbour Villar de Argañán -formerly Villar de Puerco-. The new toponym was motivated by the XII Marquis of Puerto Seguro, Luis Carvajal y Melgarejo, deputy for Vitigudino and…