Spanish hamlet 'Kill Jews Fort' to vote on name change


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  • Monday, 19 May 2014

A general view of the village of Castrillo Matajudios (Kill Jews Fort) in northern Spain May 16, 2014. REUTERS/Ricardo Ordonez

MADRID (Reuters) - The village of Castrillo Matajudios in northern Spain will vote on Sunday on whether to change the name it has had for 400 years and purge a vestige of the religious persecution meted out by the Roman Catholic Inquisition.

The name in English means Kill Jews Fort.

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