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The Giralda (Spanish: La Giralda [la xiˈɾalda]) is the bell tower of Seville Cathedral in Seville, Spain. [1] It was built as the minaret for the Great Mosque of Seville in al-Andalus, during the reign of the Almohad dynasty, with a Renaissance-style belfry added by the Catholics after the expulsion of the Muslims from the area.
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As of the census [9] of 2010, there were 2,296 people, 917 households, and 634 families living in the village. The population density was 883.1 inhabitants per square mile (341.0/km 2).
The Seville Cathedral had suffered much damage during earthquakes over the centuries, and there was a popular belief at the time that intercession to the sister saints Justa and Rufina saved the Giralda, the cathedral's bell-tower, which was formerly a mosque minaret, during the 1504 earthquake. The sisters are depicted holding a model of the ...
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Guilford Township is one of the seventeen townships of Medina County, Ohio, United States. With the Village of Seville and territory ceded to the City of Rittman for the Western Reserve National Cemetery, it encompasses an area of about twenty-five square miles. [4] The 2020 census found 3,076 people in the township.