Origins
The oldest traces of Rioseco correspond to the Iron Age and the time of Celtic Iberia. Some ancient authors had identified this area as Forum Egurrorum or a market square, in the Visigoths epoch, a theory that has been proven wrong. From this period are the documents relating to the Tierra de Campos and Campos Gothic or "Campii Gotorum". In the middle of the ninth century and throughout the tenth century, this area was a territory of colonization of the Asturian-Leonese kingdom, which also had Mozarabic people, as the Iberian Christians who lived under Arab Islamic rule in Al-Andalus. This perhaps gave the place name for the population: "Medina" (Arabic for "city").
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