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Granada (/ ɡ r ə ˈ n ɑː d ə / grə-NAH-də; [3] Spanish: [ɡɾaˈnaða] ⓘ, locally [4]) is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence of four rivers, the Darro, the Genil, the Monachil and the Beiro.
Granada is a province of southern Spain, in the eastern part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is bordered by the provinces of Albacete , Murcia , Almería , Jaén , Córdoba , Málaga , and the Mediterranean Sea (along the Costa Tropical ).
Current Configuration of the Province of Granada Province of Granada Seat of the Royal Chancellery of Granada since 1587, in Plaza Nueva.. The current configuration of the province of Granada is the result of a long process of territorial organization that reached its culmination in 1833, by means of the decree of provincialization promulgated by Javier de Burgos, Ministry of Development of ...
The Granada metropolitan area (known in Spanish as: Área Metropolitana de Granada) is the metropolitan area of Granada. The metropolitan area is located in the Province of Granada , with an area of 973 km 2 .
Royal Chapel of Granada in 1850, drawing by Francesc Xavier Parcerisa and published in Recuerdos y bellezas de España. The Nasrid dynasty of Granada was the last Moorish dominion of Al-Andalus to fall in the Reconquista (Reconquest).
64 CE – Diocese of Granada established (approximate date). [1]8th century – City wall construction begins. 713 CE – Muslims in power. [2]1066 – Massacred the Jewish population of the city 1066 Granada massacre
The origin of the name "Grenada" is obscure, but it is likely that Spanish sailors named the island for the Andalusian city of Granada. [12] [18] The name "Granada" was recorded by Spanish maps in the 1520s and referred to the islands to the north as Los Granadillos ("Little Granadas"); [15] although those named islands were deemed the property of the King of Spain, there are no records to ...
The Granada War was a series of military campaigns between 1482 and 1492 during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, against the Nasrid dynasty's Emirate of Granada. It ended with the defeat of Granada and its annexation by Castile, ending the last remnant of Islamic rule on the Iberian peninsula.