Search results
Results from the Health.Zone Content Network
Córdoba, Spain. / 37.88450722°N 4.77956750°W / 37.88450722; -4.77956750. Córdoba ( / ˈkɔːrdəbə / KOR-də-bə, Spanish: [ˈkoɾðoβa] ⓘ ), or sometimes Cordova ( / ˈkɔːrdəvə / KOR-də-və ), [6] is a city in Andalusia, Spain, and the capital of the province of Córdoba. It is the third most populated municipality in ...
Cordoba had been a seat of Jewish life in Andalusia for centuries. [citation needed] The Rambam (Maimonides), who was one of the most influential medieval Rabbis, was a notable resident of the town. There is a Historic Jewish Quarter, from the Medieval Era, that houses one of the oldest synagogues of the world; the Cordoba synagogue (built 1314 ...
571 – Visigoth Liuvigild in power. [1] 719 – Capital of al-Andalus relocated to Cordoba from Seville. [1] 785 – Great Mosque of Córdoba built. [4] 880 – Earthquake. [1] 929 – Umayyad Abd-ar-Rahman III becomes Caliph of Córdoba.
The Caliphate of Córdoba ( Arabic: خلافة قرطبة, romanized : Khilāfat Qurṭuba ), also known as the Córdoban Caliphate, was an Arab Islamic state ruled by the Umayyad dynasty from 929 to 1031. Its territory comprised most of Iberia (known to Muslims as al-Andalus) and parts of North Africa, with its capital in Córdoba.
City walls on Cairuan street. Built as fortifications soon after the Romans captured Córdoba, the walls stretched some 2,650 m (8,690 ft), completely surrounding the city. They consisted of carefully cut stone with an outer wall of up to 3 m (9.8 ft) high and a 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) inner wall flanking a gap 6 m (20 ft) wide filled with rubble.
Siege of Córdoba (1236) The conquest of Córdoba by Ferdinand III the Saint, by Antonio Palomino. Chapel of Saint Teresa of the Mosque of Córdoba (Spain). The capital of the taifa of Córdoba is conquered by the Christians. During the reconquista, the siege of Córdoba ( Spanish: Conquista de Córdoba, Conquest of Córdoba) was a successful ...
Location. The Roman bridge of Córdoba is a bridge in the Historic centre of Córdoba, Andalusia, southern Spain, originally built in the early 1st century BC across the Guadalquivir river, though it has been reconstructed at various times since. It is also known locally as the Old Bridge as for two thousand years, until the construction of the ...
Córdoba ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkoɾðoβa]) is a city in central Argentina, in the foothills of the Sierras Chicas on the Suquía River, about 700 km (435 mi) northwest of Buenos Aires. It is the capital of Córdoba Province and the second-most populous city in Argentina after Buenos Aires, with about 1.6 million urban inhabitants ...