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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.
Its capital city is Seville, while the seat of its High Court of Justice is the city of Granada. Andalusia is immediately south of the autonomous communities of Extremadura and Castilla-La Mancha ; west of the autonomous community of Murcia and the Mediterranean Sea ; east of Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean ; and north of the Mediterranean Sea ...
Granada (/ ɡ r ə ˈ n ɑː d ə / grə-NAH-də; [3] Spanish: [ɡɾaˈnaða] ⓘ) 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.
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.
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 ...
Its population is 1,914,958 (2010), of whom 40% live in the capital, Seville, and its population density is 125.25/km 2. It contains 105 municipalities. The province shares the Parque Nacional de Doñana with Huelva province. It also has the Sierra Norte de Sevilla Natural Park. The 177,484 hectares park is Andalusia's largest protected area. [2]
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). Its capital city is also called Granada. The province covers an area of 12,531 km 2 (4,838 sq mi).
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 ...