Caesaraugusta on modern city level 1 .- Decumano (now Main Street and Mina and Manifestation Espoz) 2 .- Cardo (now Calle Don Jaime) 3 .- Forum Caesaraugusta 4 .- river port 5 .- public baths 6 .- Teatro 7 .- Wall Main article: History of Zaragoza City Zaragoza has over two thousand years of history. The oldest documented population data from the seventh century BC, in the remains of settlements from the end of the Bronze Age. The first news of an urban settlement in this town tell of a call Salduie Iberian city and identified with the name “Salduvia” in a text of Pliny the Elder. The Roman city of Caesaraugusta was re-founded a colony on the immune Octavio Augusto Iberian city by veterans of the Cantabrian wars between the 25 and 12 a. C., most probably the 14 a. C. Then I had a rectangular and an area of 47 hectares, with a street layout of the old and the first perimeter (the “COSO”).Shortly after he became the most important urban center of the valley of the Ebro The city did not decline during the late empire. The year 452 was conquered by the Swabians and 466 by the Visigoths, who incorporated it into the kingdom of Toulouse. He also had to endure the siege ex 541 and the numerous attacks by the Vascons. In the seventh century his episcopal enjoyed a period of splendor with figures of bishops and Tajona Braulio of Zaragoza. The year 714 was occupied by the Saracen Musa ibn Nusair and became an important Muslim center called “Mohamed al-Baida Saraqusta” (Zaragoza la Blanca), which unsuccessfully attempted to occupy Charlemagne. 788 Banu Qasi, from Lerida, made it the capital of his kingdom Taifa. Capital of the upper boundary with the Christian kingdoms, the Muslims widened with the construction of new walls and two new districts: the Jewish Quarter and Mozarabic. With the breakdown of the Caliphate of Cordoba in 1031, was erected in the capital of an important kingdom of the Taifa Saraqusta.With the help of Castile and Aragon, Alfonso I the Battler eluded him in 1118 and became the capital of the Kingdom of Aragon, with the seat on which were crowned kings of the Crown of Aragon. The Muslim population had to move outside the walls of the city, where he founded the new district of the Moors, while the village was repopulated by Franks and given in fief to Gaston IV of Bearn. Since the end of the thirteenth century was the center of the Union Aragonese (an association of nobles to limit royal power and maintain their privileges), until it was defeated by Peter the Ceremonious 1384. The dynastic union of Castile and the Crown of Aragon became a city of the Habsburg monarchy. The establishment of the Inquisition was important because of riots and the murder of the inquisitor Pedro Arbu s in 1485. In the fifteenth century the city joined the suburbs of St. Paul farmers and fishermen from tanneries.During the reign of Ferdinand the Catholic University was founded and built the fish market. The expulsion of the Jews in 1492 and Moors in 1609 led to a certain stagnation in growth, but despite that, I stopped being a major city (with 25,000 inhabitants in 1548). It was the scene of riots because of the imprisonment of Antonio Perez, secretary of Philip II, who prosecuted by King, invoked the protection of the Aragonese Fueros 1591. The riots ended with the execution of Juan de Lanuza Justice and the introduction of some restrictions on their privileges. During the War of Succession, the city was declared supporter of Archduke Charles of Austria, occupied by the Bourbon troops, lost the autonomy which it had enjoyed until then (1707), and could only recover briefly in 1710, to repeal their charters by the edicts of New Ground, which left the city to host major institutions of the Kingdom of Aragon.Assault of Frenchtroops to the Monastery of Santa Engracia on February 8, 1809 during the War of Independence. During the eighteenth century the population grew from 30,000 inhabitants (1725) to 43,000 (1787). In 1760, riots broke Esquilache parallel, and in 1776 he founded the Economic Society of Friends of the Country. During the War of Independence (1808-1814), Zaragoza held clashes with French troops. In the war against Napoleon became famous throughout Europe for their sieges, remains a symbol of resistance to Napoleon. In the first siege (June-August 1808), General Verdier had to give up drinking. In the second siege (end December 1808-21 January 1809) capitulated after fighting a series of extremely violent, where people collaborated with the troops as heroic defenders, under the orders of Palafox, who was closeted with 30,000 men.