Busquistar from the west

La Taha, or La Tahá, is a municipality in the Alpujarras region of the province of Granada, Spain. The modern municipality consists of three distinct villages, though several of the villages are themselves clusters of distinct settlements. It lies to the east of the villages of the Rio Poqueira gorge, and to the south and west of Trevélez. Las Alpujarras is a mountainous district in Southern Spain, which stretches south from the Sierra Nevada mountains near Granada in the autonomous region of Andalucía. ... Granada is a province of southern Spain, in the eastern part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. ... Rio Trevélez upstream of the town, early spring Trevélez is a town in the community of Andalucía, Spain. ...

The villages of La Taha are:

• Pitres, with the smaller settlement of Capilerilla above it; this is the administrative centre, the largest of the three villages, and the only one on the through road
• Mecina Fondales, which comprises Mecina, Mecinilla, and Fondales
• Ferreirola, in which is included the smaller village of Atalbéitar

In guide books and other sources, some other neighbouring villages are often included in La Taha, though they do not belong to the municipality. These include

• Portugos
• Busquistar

The name La Taha comes from Arabic Tá meaning obedience. Under the Nasrid kings of Granada, the region was divided into a number of administrative districts called "tahas", each containing several settlements; for examples the villages of the Poquiera gorge formed "La Taha de Poqueira". Modern La Taha is the only one of these districts to have retained the name. Arabic is a Semitic language, closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... Nasrid is the name referring to the royal dynasty that ruled the kingdom of Granada in southern Spain from the mid 13th century to the 15th century, which is considered to be one of the longest Islamic dynasties in the history of Islamic Spain. ... The City of Granada Alhambra, Courtyard of the Lions Granada is a city and the capital of the province of Granada, in Spain. ...

External links

• Information page about La Taha from the Andalucían Statistical Institute, in Spanish