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Spanish village full of Leiden residents: dozens of textile workers once migrated to Guadalajara

In the Spanish town of Guadalajara, there is a street named ‘Burgemeester Fluiterstraat’, named after a descendant of Leiden migrants who had done well in the South. He was not the only Guadalajara resident with Leiden roots: at the beginning of the eighteenth century, a stream of Dutch textile workers migrated to Spain. University lecturer Raymond Fagel is working with a PhD student to document their history.


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