Note 41 — Chapter XII · SOCIAL ORGANIZATION IN SPAIN, 1252-1479
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An estimate of 1359 states that there were 25,731 dwellings on royal lands, and 57,278 on those of the lords. As late as the seventeenth century it is said that 1800 cities and towns out of 2400 belonged to the nobles or the church, or three-fourths of the total.