 The tower of the Santa María church in mudéjar style. Calatayud (2005 pop. 20,263) is a city and municipality in the province of Zaragoza in Aragon, Spain. It is the second-largest city in the province after the capital, Zaragoza, and the largest town in Aragon other than the three provincial capitals. It is the seat of the comarca of Comunidad de Calatayud. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1704x2272, 925 KB) Picture taken by User:Martin253 File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Calatayud Mudéjar Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the...
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Mudéjar is the name given to the Moors who remained in Spain after the Christian reconquista but were not converted to Christianity, and to a vernacular style of Spanish architecture and decoration, particularly of Aragon and Castile, of 12th and 16th centuries, strongly influenced by Moorish taste and workmanship...
A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly referring to a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them. ...
Zaragoza province Zaragoza (also called Saragossa in English) is a province of northern Spain, in the central part of the autonomous community of Aragon. ...
Capital Zaragoza Official language(s) Spanish Area – Total – % of Spain Ranked 4th 47,719 km² 9. ...
Location Coordinates : Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Zaragoza (Spanish) Spanish name Zaragoza Founded 24 Postal code 50001 - 50018 Website http://www. ...
Here is a list of the comarcas (counties) in the autonomous community of Aragon in Spain. ...
History It was founded by the Romans with the name Augusta Bilbilis. The site of the ruins of Augusta Bibilis are approximately four kilometers to the north of Calatayud. The actual city was founded by Muslims around the Ayub castle. Its name came from Arabic Qal`at 'Ayyūb = "Ayyub's fort". This name dates from the period when Muslims ruled most of Spain. The ancient inhabitants of Bilbilis moved to the new place and the city was conquered for Christians by Alfonso I of Aragon in 1120. Augusta Bilbilis was a city founded by the Romans in the province of Hispania Tarraconensis. ...
Arabic can mean: From or related to Arabia From or related to the Arabs The Arabic language; see also Arabic grammar The Arabic alphabet, used for expressing the languages of Arabic, Persian, Malay ( Jawi), Kurdish, Panjabi, Pashto, Sindhi and Urdu, among others. ...
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Al-Andalus is the Arabic name given the Iberian Peninsula by its Muslim conquerors; it refers to both the Caliphate proper and the general period of Muslim rule (711–1492). ...
Afonso I of Portugal -- (1094-1195) (Afonso Henriques) Alfonso I of Asturias -- (739-757) Alfonso I (of Castile) -- (1040-1109) the first King of Castile to be called Alfonso, but better known as Alfonso VI of Castile as he was the sixth Alfonso in the line that started with Alfonso...
 The dome of the San Juan church It is the capital of the county 'Comunidad de Calatayud' (Calatayud Community), which for 3 years, during the 19th century, was an independent province. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2272x1704, 984 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Calatayud Mudéjar Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used...
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Sites and curiosities This city contains the tallest Mudéjar tower of Aragon in the church of "Santa María". The Muslim fortress is the biggest and oldest of the Muslim fortresses of the Iberic peninsula. In the church of "San Pedro" was named Ferdinand II of Aragon ("Fernando el catolico") and was celebrated the first courts of Aragon in the XX century. Mudéjar is the name given to the Moors who remained in Spain after the Christian reconquista but were not converted to Christianity, and to a vernacular style of Spanish architecture and decoration, particularly of Aragon and Castile, of 12th and 16th centuries, strongly influenced by Moorish taste and workmanship...
Ferdinand II of Aragon. ...
The famous Roman writer called Martial was born here. The AVE high-speed train line from Madrid to Lleida (and eventually Barcelona) stops in Calatayud. Marcus Valerius Martialis, known in English as Martial, was a Latin poet from Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. ...
AVE Alstom trainsets at Seville. ...
TGV R seau class, Marseille St-Charles station This page is about high speed rail in general. ...
Motto: De Madrid al Cielo (From Madrid to Heaven) Location Coordinates: Country Spain Autonomous Community Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid Province Madrid Administrative Divisions 21 Neighborhoods 127 Founded 9th century Government - Mayor Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón (PP) Area - Land 607 km² (234. ...
smuack, lleida! Location Coordinates : Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Lleida (Catalan) Spanish name Lérida Founded 6th century BC Postal code 25XXX Website http://www. ...
Location Coordinates : Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Barcelona (Catalan) Spanish name Barcelona Nickname Ciutat Comtal (Catalan) Postal code 08001–08080 Area code 34 (Spain) + 93 (Barcelona) Website http://www. ...
Calatayud had a wealthy and powerful Jewish community traced from as early as the 10th century until the 15th century. Calatayud had a large Jewish community as early as the reign of Abd al-Rahman III. In 1882, while workmen were digging the foundation of a house, they discovered a marble tombstone bearing a Hebrew inscription in memory of a certain Samuel b. ...
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Encyclopædia Britannica, the 11th edition The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911) is perhaps the most famous edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. ...
Wine Production and D.O. Status See Calatayud (DO) page. The Calatayud DO (Denominación de Origen) is located in the southwestern corner of the province of Zaragoza (Aragón, Spain) about 90 km from Zaragoza and covers over 5,600 ha, extending over 46 different municipalities, including Calatayud itself. ...
See also The Spanish red wine grape Tintilla Spain is the third largest producer of wine in the world, the largest being France and the second Italy [1]. Historically, Spain has been known from the production of fortified wines and the best known Spanish wine is considered by some to be the...
Mudéjar is the name given to the Moors who remained in Spain after the Christian reconquista but were not converted to Christianity, and to a vernacular style of Spanish architecture and decoration, particularly of Aragon and Castile, of 12th and 16th centuries, strongly influenced by Moorish taste and workmanship...
References http://www.docalatayud.com
http://www.winesfromspain.com
Coordinates: 41°21′N, 1°38′W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
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