page_title: Écija
section_title: Post-Roman
hierarchical_section_title: Écija / History / Post-Roman
caption_attribution_description: Écija
context_page_description: Écija is a town and municipality of Spain belonging to the province of Seville, Spain, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is in the countryside, 85 km east of the city of Seville. According to the 2008 census, Écija has a total population of 40,100 inhabitants, ranking as the fifth most populous municipality in the province. The river Genil, the main tributary of the river Guadalquivir, runs through the city.
  The economy of Écija is based on agriculture, cattle and textile industry. The city has over twenty churches and convents, some of them with either Gothic, Mudéjar, Renaissance or Baroque towers or bell-gables, as well as an Arab fortress.
  In the Philippines, the province of Nueva Ecija that was created as a military comandancia in 1705 by Governor Fausto Cruzat y Góngora, was named in honour of this city.
context_section_description: After the Romans, it was ruled by successively by Suevs and Visigoths before the Umayyad conquest in 711. Arabs renamed Astigi as "Istija" (إستجة), from which the present name is derived. It was under Arab rule until its conquest in 1240 by Fernando III, King of Castile.
  Although Astigi was one of the largest and most complete Roman cities ever unearthed, mayor Julian Álvarez Pernía decided in 1998 to bulldoze Écija's Roman ruins and replace them with a 299-car parking lot.
caption: Écija in the 16th century
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