Formentera is a Mediterranean island

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Formentera is a Mediterranean island

The first human presence understanded Formentera it finds in the Bronze Age, when built the megalithic sepulcher of goes not coast, dated in the 1600 to. C. After a time in which it remained depopulated, has ruins of the step of the Phoenician, Punic cultures and Roman.Not has references to if the island was settled after the Visigoth invasions, but at least as of the XI century, during the Arab occupation, the island counted on a stable population, because remain remains of housings, wells and |algibes| of time happiness.The James I forces of Aragon, officered by Guillem of Montgrí, conquered the Pitiusas in 1235 , those which was incorporate to the kingdom of Majorca. Formentera were still inhabited for Saracen, according to reports the Llibre |feits| |dels|.After the expulsion of the |musulmana| population, the attempt to establish a permanent population in the island it failed; the hardness of the island and the caused insecurity for the Berber incursions put end, in the last years of the XIV century, to which it knows one another as the first |repoblamiento|. Of this time is the “Sa Tanca Vella” Romanesque chapel, in saint Francisco Javier, built in the year 1336.Author: Michael Krahe http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formentera

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