El origen del mas o masía lo encontramos en la Alta Edad Media en Catalunya, como continuación de los mansum carolingios. En el País Valenciano se implantaron tras la conquista de Jaime I, adaptándose en algunos casos a las alquerías musulmanas existentes. Su desarrollo tuvo lugar en zonas del interior, asociadas a cultivos de secano, principalmente cereal, vid y olivo, constituyendo unidades de aprovechamiento agrícola y, en ocasiones, pecuario. Alcanzaron su plenitud durante los siglos XVIII y XIX con el auge del capitalismo industrial, y en los años 70 del siglo pasado comenzó su decadencia.
We can find the origin of the mas or masia during the High Middle Age in Catalunya, like a continuation of the carolingios’s mansum. They were introduced after the James the First’s conquest and they were in the Valencian’s Country. In some cases, they were suiting the already built Arabian farmhouses and they mostly developed in the inland zones, used as unirrigated land, which produced cereal, grapevines and olive trees. They established units of agriculture, and sometimes for cattle, improvement and they got their fulfilment on the eighteenth and nineteenth century, with the industrial capitalism boom. They began to decline in the 70’s of the last century.
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