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In 1236, Córdoba - the once-glorious capital of Muslim Spain - fell to the forces of King Fernando III of León-Castile. This ...
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Brief history of the City of Manila
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 ...
Like many things in Spain, it started as a Muslim Medieval City and became a Christian court in 1492. This became the last Moorish stronghold in the Iberian Peninsula.
Designing new paths through the Bates curriculum, these seniors crafted interdisciplinary majors that speak to their passions ...
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 ...