Salamanca Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Salamancamunicipio of Spain and city. Location of Salamanca in Spain. Location of Salamanca in the province of Salamanca. Motto: Very noble, Very loyal, Hospitable and charitable, Very educated, Learned and Wise City of Salamanca the Research and Development Center, Water Technology (cidta in Spanish)3. Center for Pulsed Lasers Ultrashort Ultraintensos (CLPU). The city was the headquarters of financial institutions such as Caja Duero and Banco de Castilla. And today, the city and its metropolitan area, some of the one hundred largest companies, by turnover, of Castile and Leon: Falcon Travel (6. Th), Eurodivisas Global Exchange Group (1. Enusa Insdustrias Advanced (1. Grupo Mirat (1. 7. Th), Biocarburantes de Castilla y León (2. Ipod These Last Hours (2015). MSD Animal Health (3. Group MRS (3. 6. Th), Juan Alberto Recio (4. Tyres Andrew (6. Cooperative Pharmaceutical Salamanca (9. In addition, at present, is considered as the great world leader in the teaching of the Spanish language,3. Castilla y León, which represents the 1. The origin of the name Salamanca is not clear. Polybius of Megalopolis and Estephano called the city Helmantike, a Greek name that to them meant ‘Earth divination’. The Boy (2016) Watch Online For Free. On the other hand, Ptolemy appeals to a polis dominated by the vacceos with the name of Salmatica or Salmantica. Livy and Plutarch call Hermandica and Polyene titled Salmantida or Salmatis. Even other historians called Selium and Sentica. On the other hand, some others such as Justin martyr and later Rui Mendez or Murillo attributed the creation of the city to Teucer, son of Telamon, king of Salamia, who after being defeated in the Trojan war, arrived to the iberian peninsula and founded a city, which in remembering his homeland would call Salamatica. Another theory that can be appealed is that of the existence of a god of the first inhabitants —nomadic herders and farmers of neolithic— called Helman, whose name led to the name Helmantica. The philologist Martin S.