Ah, Toledo, Spain — an ancient medieval city steeped in beauty and history. Perched atop a hill surrounded by the Tagus River ...

EARLIEST oral traditions suggest that Maynila was founded as a Muslim principality as early as the 1250s. Rajah Sulayman was ...

Discover the dramatic history of al-Andalus, from its rapid rise to its eventual fall. Show more In 711 an Arab and Berber army crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and invaded the Iberian Peninsula.

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...

As recognised by many objective historians, the Jews, in particular, enjoyed under Muslim rule in Spain a ‘golden age’ unprecedented and unparalleled. In Cordoba, circa 910, the enlightened ...

Martyred in 303 during the Diocletian persecution, Sts. Ciriaco and Paula are now honored as the patron saints of Málaga.

Hall of the Two Sisters of the Alhambra in Granada, Spain, 2024. Based on his MacArthur Foundation award-winning fusion of the technical and creative, Wilson was approached by the Getty Foundation ...

D e Madrid al cielo goes the proverb—after Madrid, Heaven. Ernest Hemingway expressed a similar sentiment in Death in the Afternoon (1932). Madrid, he wrote, “makes you feel very badly, all question ...