Revolt of the Comuneros: Difference between revisions

The comuneros were strong in the [[Geography of Spain#The Inner Plateau and associated mountains|central plateau of the Iberian Peninsula]], as well as scattered other places such as [[Murcia]]. The rebels sought to propound their revolutionary ideas to the rest of the kingdom, but without much success. There were few attempts at rebellion elsewhere, such as in [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]] to the northwest or in [[Andalusia]] to the south.<ref name="perez146">[[#Per01|Pérez 2001]], ppp. 146–147.</ref> ''Comunidades'' in the south were set up in [[Jaén, Spain|Jaén]], [[Úbeda]], and [[Baeza, Spain|Baeza]], unique in Andalusia, but with time they were drawn back into the royalists. Murcia stayed with the rebel cause, but did not coordinate much with the Junta, and the rebellion there had a character closer to the nearby [[Revolt of the Brotherhoods]] in [[Kingdom of Valencia|Valencia]] in [[Crown of Aragon|Aragon]].<ref>[[#Per01|Pérez 2001]], p. 155.</ref> In [[Extremadura]] to the southwest, the city of [[Plasencia]] joined the ''Comunidades'', but this was undermined by the close proximity of other royalist cities such as [[Ciudad Rodrigo]] and [[Cáceres, Spain|Cáceres]].<ref name="perez146" /> A close correlation can be drawn between poor economic fortunes over the previous twenty years and the rebellion; central Castile suffered from agricultural failure and other setbacks under the Royal Council, while Andalusia was relatively prosperous with its maritime trade. Andalusia's leadership also feared that in the instability of a civil war, the [[Moriscos]] of Granada would likely revolt.<ref>[[#Hal81|Haliczer 1981]], ppp. 183, 205.</ref>