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Agali was one of the earliest sites of regular monasticism—"monastic communities following received rules"—in central, southern or western Spain, although such communities did exist prior to the late sixth century on the
Mediterranean coast and in the northeast. In the rest of Spain there was "an
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Agali constituted a major cluster of ecclesiastical activity for the last century of the existence of
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