Alcañices

Alcañices lies close to the Portuguese frontier in the uplands west of Zamora. Its name is remembered for the treaty signed here in 1297 by King Denis of Portugal and Ferdinand IV of Castile, which settled much of the boundary between their kingdoms. The town's frontier position also brought war. During the Portuguese Restoration War it was burned in 1643, and fighting returned to the district during the Napoleonic invasion of Iberia.