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Flag of Cabañas de Yepes - Image by "Nethunter", Wikimedia Commons, 8 September 2019
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The municipality of Cabañas de Yepes (240 inhabitants in 2018 vs. 889 in 1930; 1,792 ha; municipal website) is located 50 km east of Toledo and 10 km south-west of Ocaña.
Cabañas (lit. Huts) de Yepes was establshed at the junction of two
transhumance roads connecting Burgos to Murcia and Cuenca to Extremadura, respectively. The village was also the main node of a local network connecting Ciruelos, Yepes, Huerta de Valdecarárabanos, Ocaña and Dosbarrios.
The village was probably resettled by Alfonso VII in the aftermath of the
battle of Ourique (1138). Cabañas, first documented in a donation made
in 1150, depended on the Silos monastery (1190-1213) until acquired by
Rodrigo Ximénez de la Rada, Archbishop of Toledo. Cabañas was granted
the status of villa in 1477.
Pedro Fernández de Bustos, Knight of the Order of Saint James, acquired
the town in 1565 and renamed it to Villafranca de Bustos; his heirs sold
it in 1595 to Luis Gaytán de Ayala, regidor of Toledo and lord of
Bujarazo, who renamed it to Villafranca de Gaytán and was erected in
1624 Count of Villafranca de Gaytán by Philip IV. In 1657, the town was
confisacted and sold to Diego Noriega Poasa, knight of the Order of
Saint James and regidor of Madrid, who sold it the next year to Manuel Pantoja de Alpuche, knight of the Order of Calatrava and member of the Real Hacienda, who renamed it to Cabañas de Yepes.
Ivan Sache, 8 September 2019
The flag of Cabañas de Yepes (photo) is prescribed by an Order issued on 5 May
1994 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 20 May
1994 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 27, p. 1,968 (text).
The flag is described as follows:
Flag: Rectangular, in proportions 2:3, the panel divided by to diagonals, the upper and lower part, green, the lateral, white.
The coat of arms of Cabañas de Yepes is prescribed by an Order issued on 5 May
1994 by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha and published on 20 May
1994 in the official gazette of Castilla-La Mancha, No. 27, pp.
1,968-1,969 (text).
The coat of arms is described as follows:
Coat of arms: Quarterly per saltire, 1. Vert a sheep argent, 2. and 3. Argent a garb of three wheat spikes vert, 4. Vert two huts argent The shield surmounted by a Spanish Royal crown.
The Royal Academy accepted the proposed symbols "without inconvenience".
[Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia 191:2, 405. 1994]
Ivan Sache, 8 September 2019
