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Street of the Acebeda
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Acebeda is a municipality of the Community of Madrid (Spain).The name of the municipality comes from the impressive quantity of hollies that you/they could be in the municipality, of those that although few, they are some centennials. The the year 1833, the same as many other towns, it passed to be part of the county of Madrid, from the county of Segovia of the one that came. Acebeda belonged only during centuries to rural population, until the XX century, when the population began to emigrate toward Madrid.The origin of the town comes from the reconquest, when some shepherds of the municipality of Horcajo, very near to Acebeda that made its transhumancia routes with its livestock, they began to build houses on the edge of the real narrow canyon, century to century was growing in population, until in 1889, it reached its bigger figure of inhabitants of its history: 360 inhabitants.
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