it is considered that the expulsion of the Moors of València caused a demographic impact, as
well as a structural change in the occupation of the Valencian region, which was one the reasons for the
later valencian development. This paper analyzes the demographic evolution Post-Moorish of a fragment
of the Costera de Ranes, term of Xàtiva, from registers kept on the collection of the municipal contribution
of Menjadors.
The right of menjadors was a direct tax that residents of the particular contribution of Xàtiva had to
pay for being neighbors of Xàtiva 'and enjoy all the exemptions, franchises and immunities enjoyed by
the neighbords' of Xàtiva. Therefore, it helps us to know how many people lived in each place of the particular
contribution of the city
