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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 ...
Cordoba had been a seat of Jewish life in Andalusia for centuries. [citation needed] The Rambam (Maimonides), who was one of the most influential medieval Rabbis, was a notable resident of the town. There is a Historic Jewish Quarter, from the Medieval Era, that houses one of the oldest synagogues of the world; the Cordoba synagogue (built 1314 ...
" 'The Ornament of the World': medieval Cordoba as a cultural centre". In Salma Khadra Jayyusi (ed.). The Legacy of Muslim Spain. EJ Brill. ISBN 90-04-09599-3. Trudy Ring, ed. (1996). "Cordoba". Southern Europe. International Dictionary of Historic Places. Vol. 3. Fitzroy Dearborn. pp. 155+. ISBN 9781884964022. OCLC 31045650. Published in the ...
The Roman Walls of Córdoba are the ancient Roman defensive walls of the Roman colonia of Corduba –present-day Córdoba, Spain–, capital of the Roman province of Hispania Baetica. Stretching 2,650 metres (8,690 ft), they were built after the Romans captured the city in 206 BC to defend the ancient Roman town as part of the Roman Republic. [1]
The ingots, which weigh between 50 and 70 pounds, date to the first century A.D., making them around 2,000 years old, according to a study published on May 3 in the Journal of Roman Archaeology ...
'the radiant city' [1]) was a fortified palace-city on the western outskirts of Córdoba in present-day Spain. Its remains are a major archaeological site today. The city was built in the 10th century by Abd ar-Rahman III (912–961), a member of the Umayyad dynasty and the first caliph of Al-Andalus.
The Roman bridge of Córdoba is a bridge in the Historic centre of Córdoba, Andalusia, southern Spain, originally built in the early 1st century BC across the Guadalquivir river, though it has been reconstructed at various times since. It is also known locally as the Old Bridge as for two thousand years, until the construction of the San ...
Remains of the outer wall of the Umayyad Alcazar incorporated into the façade of the Episcopal Palace today. The Alcázar of the Caliphs or Caliphal Alcázar, also known as the Umayyad Alcázar [1] and the Andalusian Alcazar of Cordoba, [2] was a fortress-palace located in Córdoba, in present-day Spain.