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16-549: In the year 1026, three peasant families built the first settlement in the comarca of Segarra , as in those days it was uninhabited. Later on, the Barcelona counts committed ownership of those lands to those people. By this, the counts wanted to establish their power in the area, as the Segarra was at that time the border between Christian and Muslim territories, thereby establishing the first fortress ( castrum Cervarie ). When

32-509: A high plain . Historically, the name referred to a larger area than the current comarca. It has a continental climate, with cold winters and hot summers, and between 350 and 450 mm (15-18 inches) of rainfall per year. It is a grain-growing region, with some pine woods and a few evergreen oaks . Its capital is the town of Cervera . 41°44′21″N 1°19′55″E  /  41.73917°N 1.33194°E  / 41.73917; 1.33194 Evergreen oak Live oak or evergreen oak

48-454: A small way during the war, and then more strongly after the war, the local people had demonstrated support for the king's politics. Charles II , the last Spanish king from the house of Austria , died in 1700, and in his will he designated Philip V as his heir. The new king, with the name of Philip V , was accepted in the kingdom of Castile , as well as in Crown of Aragon . England , which

64-402: Is any of a number of oaks in several different sections of the genus Quercus that share the characteristic of evergreen foliage. These oaks are generally not more closely related to each other than they are to other oaks. When the term live oak is used in a specific rather than general sense, it most commonly refers to the group of species under Quercus sect. Virentes , which includes

80-533: The Gulf Coast to Louisiana and Mexico , and across the southwest to California . Evergreen oak species are also common in parts of southern Europe and south Asia , and are included in this list for the sake of completeness. These species, although not having "live" in their common names in their countries of origin, are colloquially called live oaks when cultivated in North America. According to

96-621: The Live Oak Society the oldest southern live oak is believed to be the Seven Sisters Oak located in Mandeville, Louisiana with an estimated age of 500–1,000 years. The southern live oak is the official state tree of Georgia . The Seal of Texas includes a live oak branch. A small grove of live oaks on a prairie is known as a mott . Live oak was widely used in early American butt shipbuilding . Because of

112-602: The southern live oak ( Quercus virginiana ), the first species so named, and an icon of the Old South . The name live oak comes from the fact that evergreen oaks remain green and "live" throughout winter, when other oaks are dormant and leafless. The name is used mainly in North America , where evergreen oaks are widespread in warmer areas along the Atlantic coast from southeast Virginia to Florida , west along

128-541: The United States was similarly sought and exported until metal-hulled commercial vessels became the norm in the early part of the 20th century. Live oak lumber is rarely used for furniture, because it warps and twists while drying. The wood of live oaks continues to be used occasionally in shipbuilding—and in tool handles for its strength, energy absorption, and density, although modern composites are often substituted with good effect. Dry Southern live oak lumber has

144-463: The Western border was established at Lleida at the year 1149, Cervera grew up into terraced houses on the other side of the border. The inhabitants were freed from the feudal lord's abuses and with the royal privileges, the town gradually became established first as a Confraria (1182), then Consolat (municipal organ) (1202), and from 1267 up to the present, as a Paeria. The most significant episode

160-658: The ones who were governing (the Bourbons ) and sent two ambassadors to the Courts with the mission to persuade the ministers of Philip V of his absolute support, with the goal to obtain some logical compensation and in one of their 30 requests, they requested one university like the one in the city of Lleida. Philip V , then, built the University of Cervera and closed the rest (the Nueva Planta decrees ). The creation of

176-604: The tree did not lend itself to being milled to planking of any length. "The world's oldest floating ship, the USS Constitution, launched in 1797, got its nickname "Old Ironsides" during the War of 1812 after its hull, made in part of live oak, proved equal to the fearsome cannons of the British". Loggers had cut down most of the live oak trees in southern Europe by the latter half of the 19th century. Live oak timber from

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192-408: The trees' short height and low-hanging branches, lumber from live oaks was used in curved parts of the frame, such as knee braces (single-piece, L-shaped braces that spring inward from the side and support the deck), in which the grain runs perpendicular to structural stress, making for exceptional strength. Live oaks were not generally used for planking because the curved and often convoluted shape of

208-487: The university gave an economic boost to the town, basically (among other reasons) because students lodged in the town. In 1842 the University was relocated to Barcelona , which portended an important economic loss. However, when train service arrived in the town in 1860 along with improvements to some public services (such as the water supply) and as the establishment of some industries and an important wine trade, there

224-645: Was an improvement in the local economy. When the Phylloxera arrived, this caused a lot of people with vineyards to go bankrupt, due to a major crisis with the Cervera wine trade, which recovered somewhat with the creation of the Sindicat Agrícola (1919). Segarra Segarra ( Western Calatan: [seˈɣara, seˈɣarɛ] ) is a comarca (county) in Ponent , Catalonia ( Spain ), situated on

240-647: Was at the head of the opposing nations proposed Charles VI as the heir of the Spanish throne and in 1702 a European war started (the War of the Spanish Succession ). An appropriate diplomatic intervention could make the Crown of Aragon finally give support to Charles VI . In Cervera, there were people in favour of both sides. When the war was finished, Cervera, which had been destroyed, decided to give support to

256-575: Was the signature, in 1452, of the nuptial agreement between Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile (the Spanish Catholic Monarchs). Historically, there was a prosperous Jewish community in Cervera, dating from the 12th century to the expulsion of the Jews in the 15th century. In 1702, the town got the title of city from the king Philip V , for which the townspeople thanked the king. The king bestowed this title because in

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