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

Björn Ironside has become famous because of the TV show Vikings. In the ninth century, Björn and Hastein launched a daring raid against the Iberian Peninsula. In this documentary, we take a look at ...

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.

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

In Luke Stegemann’s perceptive “new biography” of the kaleidoscopic capital of Spain, he chides Hemingway for possibly ... the reader learns how a place that began as a Muslim fortification in the ...

The city reflects the Roman past with the coexistence of Christian, Islamic, and Jewish cultures throughout its history ... Like many things in Spain, it started as a Muslim Medieval City and ...

This dark period of history lasted for more than 300 years. Our world has much to learn from Muslim Spain. Civilisation flourishes in an atmosphere of tolerance and acceptance of others and ...

This era is often referred to as the Convivencia, a period of relative harmony and exchange between Muslim, Christian, and Jewish communities in Medieval Spain ... from art history to contemporary ...