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The Spanish place name Andalucía (immediate source of the English Andalusia) was introduced into the Spanish languages in the 13th century under the form el Andalucía. [30] The name was adopted to refer to those territories still under Moorish rule, and generally south of Castilla Nueva and Valencia , and corresponding with the former Roman ...
Seville (/ s ə ˈ v ɪ l / sə-VIL; Spanish: Sevilla, pronounced ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville.It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula.
The following table lists the 56 cities in Andalusia with a population of at least 25,000 on January 1, 2018, as estimated by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística. [2] A city is displayed in bold if it is a state or federal capital or italic if it is a provincial capital.
Rank Name of municipality Province Population (2001) [1] Population (2011) [2] Population (2019) [3] 1 Sevilla: Sevilla: 684,633 698,042 688,592 2 Málaga: Málaga
Almería (UK: / ˌ æ l m ə ˈ r iː ə /, [3] US also / ˌ ɑː l-/, [4] [5] Spanish: [almeˈɾi.a] ⓘ) is a city and municipality of Spain, located in Andalusia. It is the capital of the province of the same name. It lies in southeastern Iberia on the Mediterranean Sea. Caliph Abd al-Rahman III founded the city in 955. [6]
Córdoba (/ ˈ k ɔːr d ə b ə / KOR-də-bə; Spanish: [ˈkoɾðoβa] ⓘ), or sometimes Cordova (/ ˈ k ɔːr d ə v ə / 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 Andalusia. The city primarily lies on the right bank of the Guadalquivir in the ...
Málaga (/ ˈ m æ l ə ɡ ə / ⓘ; Spanish: ⓘ) is a municipality of Spain, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the autonomous community of Andalusia.With a population of 591,637 in 2024, [5] it is the second-most populous city in Andalusia and the sixth most populous in the country.
In al-Andalus (Muslim Spain) the city was first the seat of a kūra (Spanish: cora), [1] or territory, of the Caliphate of Córdoba, then made capital of the Taifa of Seville (Arabic: طائفة أشبيليّة, Ta'ifa Ishbiliya), which was incorporated into the Christian Kingdom of Castile under Ferdinand III, who was first to be interred in ...