After living with the name for more than 500 years, the village of Castrillo MatajudÃos (Castrillo Kill the Jews) looks set for a change. This week the 60 residents of the village in northern Spain will vote on a proposal put forward by the mayor, Lorenzo RodrÃguez, to revert to what is believed to be its original name, Castrillo Mota de Judios (Castrillo Jews Hill). It apparently acquired this name in 1035 when Jews fleeing a pogrom in a nearby village took refuge on the hill. "The people of [nearby] Castrojeriz took up arms against the king's emissaries, killed five of them and 66 Jews, while the rest were banished to Castrillo, which became known as the Mota de los Judios," the mayor told the local newspaper Diario de Burgos. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/14/spain-castrillo-matajudios-kill-the-jews-name-change
