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In this paper we shall address the Murcian language that appears in several novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the Region of Murcia in order to verify if it constitutes a real sample of the Spanish language spoken in Murcia. To achieve this aim, we shall carry out a historical review to understand the origin of Murcian regionalism and the intellectual movement that emerged at the end of the 19th century. The regionalism born in Murcia in the nineteenth century is a twofold phenomenon, namely, both a political and cultural regionalism. Political regionalism, on the one hand, will be related to the Canton of Cartagena, a federalist insurrection that took place on July 12, 1783 whose goal was to proclaim itself as an independent canton. Cultural regionalism, on the other hand, is intimately tied to the association of the Murcian dialect with the so-called panocho, satirical speech of the Huerta de Murcia among whose predecessors include: Pedro Díaz Cassou, José Martínez Tornel and Andrés Blanco y García. This cultural and intellectual movement aims at promoting a regional identity of Murcia, mainly focusing on a linguistic identity and Murcia's customs and traditions. In addition, it will be worth stressing the great the importance of social stratification in explaining the regional and linguistic identity, since most of Murcia's society came from rural environments with a low level of education. Finally, we also mean to provide a considerable amount of reliable linguistic data which contributes to the studies on the nineteenth-century Spanish language, one of the most little studied within the discipline of History of the Spanish Language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work raises the possibilities of study offered by the repartimientos to deepen into the knowledge of the Andalusian fanādiq, the Castilian alhóndigas, and the Aragonese alfondechs. The repartimientos information found for the cities of Valencia, Murcia, and Seville, have been deeply analyzed. The aim is to identify the alhóndigas and the alfondechs of these cities to approach to the fanādiq of al-Andalus through the quantification, location and characteristics gathered. In this paper, after a brief presentation of the repartimiento system and its characteristics, we focus and develop the relationship between these three types of buildings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, the Region of Murcia has promoted new tourism models related to heritage and the sea. However, despite the richness of its maritime history and heritage, it has not done so in a complementary manner. The Mar Menor-La Manga area has only boosted the maritime aspect in relation to nautical activities, leaving their heritage relegated to a second place. This paper seeks to vindicate the importance of the Maritime Heritage, History, and Culture associated with this area and to show the opportunities offered by its proper enhancement through a case study: the implementation of an underwater heritage trail in the Phoenician wreck of the "Bajo de la Campana" as part of the "Isla Grosa" Project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Botanical Garden located in what once was the Murcia "Instituto Provincial de Segunda Enseñanza", founded in 1837, is one of the few remaining gardens of the historical high schools of Spain. At that time, the school was considered to be one of the best in the country and it still keeps some of the specimens that were used to teach botany. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries professors of Natural History and Agriculture developed the activity of their departments in connection with this space, giving way to an excellent collection of plants and a valuable set of scientific and teaching materials. Today the gardens are part of a public park where the activities carried out are very different from the teaching functions for which they were originally conceived, to the extent that the plants are even at risk. This paper seeks to explore both the history of this educational space and the intrahistory of the activities carried out in it in relation to the teaching of sciences and the staff involved. It also aims to safeguard the heritage of the educational institutions of the Region of Murcia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze the existing tensions within the wool carders’ guild of Murcia regarding the annual election of their main authorities – the so-called veedores – from the second half of the fifteenth century to the early sixteenth century. In this period, the guild´s elite sought to monopolize the designation of these authorities, with the resistance of several guild members. As a consequence of this conflict, the local council interceded several times by changing the election system with the aim of calming the tensions, although with no success. Our objective is to identify the interests of the main actors involved in the conflict, in order to analyze the social nature of this dispute. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Almost all the towns of the kingdom of Murcia received generous royal privileges throughout the late Middle Ages that suppressed or lowered the customs tax burden, especially the almojarifazgo, the toll and the tithe. Such grants were granted to them as a borders territorys and scarce in resources, which always remained sparsely populated, so that the monarchs, through these advantages, sought to attract a greater number of settlers and enhance economic development through trade with the neighboring regions or by the sea. This paper reviews such tax exemptions and how those who obtained them fought for your accomplishment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the Southeast peninsular, anticyclonic situations and advections are fed in winter with polar / continental arctic air is common. Under these conditions, intrabetic basins and river valleys are very prone to the development of inversions breakup temperature. A clear example is the Media Vega del Segura in the winter months. In this paper these major factors and situations of inversion breakup temperature registered with Vega during the period 2000-2013 are analyzed. To complement the study, a proposal frost hazard mapping in the Huerta de Murcia for different winter months is done. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]