# data[].attributes.body
The city was an important city center until the Roman conquest in 193 BC. After the Germanic invasions, Toledo would become the capital and, later, the main ecclesiastical seat of the Visigoth Kingdom.

# data[].attributes.body
After the first Germanic incursions, the old walls were rebuilt for defensive purposes; Despite this, in 411 the city was conquered by the Alans thanks to their imposing mastery of the horse and their arts of war, who were in turn defeated by the Visigoths in 418.

# data[].attributes.body
In the year 711, Toledo was conquered by the Muslims, whose rule ended with the taking of the city in 1085 by Alfonso VI.

# data[].attributes.body
In 797note 3 during the emirate of Alhakén I, a revolt broke out against Córdoba. According to certain chronicles - since there are different versions of the event - the emir would have sent the muladi Amrús ben Yusufnota 4 to subdue the city. Amrús decimated the local muladis through what is known as the "day of the pit": at a banquet in the governor's palace where the main muladis of the city were invited to eat, they were allegedly murdered as they entered and their corpses thrown to the ground

# data[].attributes.body
 In the 16th century, the war of the Communities of Castile took place and the transfer of the court to Madrid in 1561, after which the city fell into decline, accentuated by the economic crisis of the time.

# data[].attributes.body
From the middle of the nineteenth century the expansion outside the walls began; first in the vicinity of the railway station to take off definitively since the late 1940s through the Tajo valley, with the construction of the Workers Town11 of the National Weapons Factory and especially following the axis that formed the N-403 road

# data[].attributes.body
The development of the peripheral neighborhoods has simultaneously caused a gradual abandonment of the old walled enclosure as the population moved to the new neighborhoods born since the 1960s.

# data[].attributes.body
In the 1970s, with the creation by the Ministry of Housing of the Polígono de Decongestión de Madrid (today the Santa María de Benquerencia neighborhood), the expansion of the urban nucleus began following the left bank of the river on the N-400 road. , until it became the most populated neighborhood in the entire municipality.

# data[].attributes.body
Already in contemporary times, the siege and defense of the fortress during the civil war is remembered. In 1983 Toledo became the seat of the regional Courts and the Junta de Communities de Castilla-La Manchanota 1 and in 1986 its historic center was declared a World Heritage Site.

# data[].attributes.body
In 2007, Toledo was the third sunniest city in Spain, with 3,040 hours of sunshine, according to the data available to the National Institute of Statistics, collected in its statistical yearbook.