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Andalucia Andalusia (Spanish: Andaluc?a) is an autonomous community of Spain. Andalusia is the most populous and the second largest, in terms of its land area, of
return to Spain he worked at a series of government jobs that involved extensive travel in Andalucia. (Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia) . His career as a public servant
of their travels through these Christian Lands. Ahmad bin Qasim was a Muslim born in Andalucia Spain, in the year 1569. A "New Christian" or convert to the faith,
time to historic bygone days. Lorca said of the Romancero Gitano; "?el libro es un retablo de Andalucia con gitanos, caballos (?) donde apenas si esta expresada la
can be delegated to regional governments. This is the case in in Andaluc?a where the Junta de Andalucia has the responsibility for the Attending a local state school
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Andalusia (Spanish: Andalucía) is an autonomous community of Spain. Andalusia is the most populous and the second largest, in terms of its land area, of the seventeen autonomous communities of the Kingdom of Spain. Its capital is Seville.
Andalusia is bounded on the north by the autonomous communities of Extremadura and Castilla-La Mancha; on the east by the autonomous community of Murcia and the Mediterranean Sea; on the west by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean; on the south by the Mediterranean Sea, the Strait of Gibraltar, which separates Spain from Morocco, and the Atlantic Ocean. The British colony of Gibraltar shares a three-quarter-mile land border with the Andalusian province of Cádiz at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar.
Contents[hide]· 1 History o 1.1 Tartessians and Phoenicians o 1.2 Carthaginians and Romans o 1.3 Vandals and Visigoths o 1.4 Arabs and Moors · 2 Geography · 3 Administrative divisions · 4 Economy · 5 Transports and commerce · 6 Government and Politics · 7 Monuments · 8 Native or Famous people from Andalusia · 9 See also · 10 References · 11 External links
[edit] History
Further information: Al-Andalus
[edit] Tartessians and Phoenicians
Tartessos, the capital of the once-powerful Tartessian civilization, was located in Andalusia in pre-Roman times. The Phoenicians colonized several areas on the Andalusian coast during the early part of the first millennium BCE. The Oldest being Cadiz around 1100BC. This brought them in contact with the innerland Tartessians.
[edit] Carthaginians and Romans
With the fall of Phoenicia in the East, the Semitic towns on the coasts of Andalusia turned into the biggest North African Phoenician colony Carthage and Andalusia became the major staging ground for the war vs Rome led by Hannibal from Cartagena. The Romans eventually were able to reverse the tide of the war and conquer Andalusia. From then on the region was given the name...
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