Albuñol
Albuñol is a city located in the province of Granada, Spain. According to the 2007 census, the city has a population of 6,270 inhabitants.
It is believed that its origin is Roman, but remains have been found of a prehistoric settlement in the Cave of Bats, located in the municipality of Albuñol. The heyday of the Alpujarra was the Moors, at the time Albuñol contained the largest population of Great Cehel or Gran Costa. It was in these centuries Albuñol was defended by the castle of La Rábita. In the sixteenth century Portocarrero Luis Zapata bought the population to the Crown, Dona Juana, also receiving the award of city status. After the expulsion of the Moors in 1570 began the repopulation of the Alpujarra with Castile, Galicia and Leon, but Albuñol did not occur until the seventeenth century. In 1834 he became head of the judicial district of the same name, currently the headquarters is located in Motril.
It is believed that its origin is Roman, but remains have been found of a prehistoric settlement in the Cave of Bats, located in the municipality of Albuñol. The heyday of the Alpujarra was the Moors, at the time Albuñol contained the largest population of Great Cehel or Gran Costa. It was in these centuries Albuñol was defended by the castle of La Rábita. In the sixteenth century Portocarrero Luis Zapata bought the population to the Crown, Dona Juana, also receiving the award of city status. After the expulsion of the Moors in 1570 began the repopulation of the Alpujarra with Castile, Galicia and Leon, but Albuñol did not occur until the seventeenth century. In 1834 he became head of the judicial district of the same name, currently the headquarters is located in Motril.
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Anatomically modern humans first arrived in the Iberian Peninsula around 42,000 years ago. The ancient Iberian and Celtic tribes, along with other pre-Roman peoples, dwelled the territory maintaining contacts with foreign Mediterranean cultures. The Roman conquest and colonization of the peninsula (Hispania) ensued, bringing the Romanization of the population. Receding of Western Roman imperial authority ushered in the migration of different non-Roman peoples from Central and Northern Europe with the Visigoths as the dominant power in the peninsula by the fifth century. In the early eighth century, most of the peninsula was conquered by the Umayyad Caliphate, and during early Islamic rule, Al-Andalus became a dominant peninsular power centered in Córdoba. Several Christian kingdoms emerged in Northern Iberia, chief among them León, Castile, Aragon, Portugal, and Navarre made an intermittent southward military expansion, known as Reconquista, repelling the Islamic rule in Iberia, which culminated with the Christian seizure of the Emirate of Granada in 1492. Jews and Muslims were forced to choose between conversion to Catholicism or expulsion, and eventually the converts were expelled through different royal decrees.
Currency / Language
ISO | Currency | Symbol | Significant figures |
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EUR | Euro | € | 2 |
ISO | Language |
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EU | Basque language |
CA | Catalan language |
GL | Galician language |
OC | Occitan language |
ES | Spanish language |