Palencia

Palencia is a metropolis south of Tierra de Campos, in north-northwest Spain, the capital of the province of Palencia inside the autonomous community of Castile and Leon. The municipality had a population of 78,892 in 2017. The fortified Celtiberian agreement is cited as Pallantia by using Strabo and Ptolemy, a model possibly of an Indo-European root pala. It was the chief metropolis of the Vaccaei, despite the fact that Strabo wrongly assigns it to the Arevaci. The metropolis changed into starved into submission by the Romans in the second century BC and integrated into the province of Hispania Tarraconensis, in the jurisdiction of Colonia Clunia Sulpicia.

Though the little Roman garrison town changed into an active mint, it became insignificant compared to the Roman villas of Late Antiquity inside the surrounding territory. Archeologists have exposed the stays of Roman villas at La Olmeda and on the "Quintanilla de l. A. Cueza", where the fragments of mosaic floors are spectacularly subtle. According to the fifth-century Galician chronicler Idatius, the town of Palencia become all but destroyed inside the Visigothic wars towards the Suevi: the date falls in the reign of Theodoric II, whose energy centre still lay far to the east, in Aquitania.