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The municipality of Cazalegas (1,813 inhabitants in 2020; 2,948 ha; municipal website) is located 70 km west of Toledo and 20 km north-east of Talavera de la Reina.
Cazalegas was allegedly the Roman town of Cazalia, without the least evidence. A manuscript from the times of Cardinal Lorenzana (late 18th century) kept in the Toledo Provincial Library reports that during the reign of Visigothic king Wamba (7th century), a bishop independent from the metropolitan bishop of Mérida lived in Cazalegas, then known as Vivaqua.
Jiménez de Gregorio claims that Cazalegas could have been derived from a Celtic toponym, Caçallecas. A document dated 1156, however, lists Faztalegas, a toponym of Arab origin meaning "a free land".
Although its origin is obscure, Cazalegas was not a re-settlement village established after the Christian reconquest. The village was part of the domain offered in 1369 by King Henry II to Gómez Manrique, Archbishop of Toledo. It remained past of the ecclesiastic domain until the suppression of the feudal system in 1812.
Ivan Sache, 16 October 2021
The flag of Cazalegas is prescribed by Order No. 114 issued on 11 July 2021 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 26 July 2021 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 141, p. 28,008 (text).
The flag is described as follows:
Flag: Panel in proportions 3:5, vertically divided into two equal parts, blue at hoist and white at fly; charged in an approximate proportion of 2/5 of the panel's width, seven grapevine leaves vert, arranged in the panel's center on two horizontal rows, 4 and 3, proportionate and symmetric.
Ivan Sache, 16 October 2021
