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Hello friends and colleagues, today I propose a visit to the old neighborhood of the beautiful Nazari Benaocaz villa, hope you like it, then some letters on the history of the town and the neighborhood.

Benaocaz is a Spanish municipality in the province of Cadiz, Andalusia. In 2005 it had 745 inhabitants. Its surface area is 70 km ² and has a density of 10.74 inhabitants / km ². Its geographical coordinates are 36 ° 42 'N, 5 ° 25' W. It is located at an altitude of 793 meters and 120 kilometers from the provincial capital, Cadiz.
It is located in the Sierra del Endrinal Tavizna River south, and is part of the Route of the White Villages.

There is evidence of human habitation from prehistory (the Veredilla Sima, [VI millennium BC]) and then testifies Iberian and Roman presence. That time is the road that connects with Ubrique Benaocaz of the few that remain in the area.
As a village founded by the Arabs in 715 and was taken to the Christians in 1485 by Rodrigo Ponce de León, who also won archite, Ubrique, Grazalema and Villaluenga del Rosario and the two castles Aznalmara (Tavizna) and Fatima or Cardela. All these villas and castles were known before its conquest by Christian "The Seven Towns", renamed "Lordship of the Seven Towns" In 1490 it became the property of the same noble within Villaluenga Manor gave him the Kings Catholics.
Preserves the remains of his old neighborhood with cobblestone Nazari and has been declared a historic. Virtually its entire term is located in the Natural Park of the Sierra de Grazalema.

The Kingdom of Granada (Arabic: إمارة غرناطة, trans. Imarat Gharnāṭah), also called the Emirate of Granada or just Kingdom of Granada, was an Islamic state in the Middle Ages located in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, with its capital in the Granada. Founded in 1238 by Muhammed I ibn Nasr Nazari, the last king was Boabdil el Chico, overthrown by the Catholic Monarchs on January 2, 1492 after the capture of the city of Granada. The kingdom survived in this precarious situation due to its favorable geographical location, both for the defense of the territory and for the maintenance of trade with the Christian kingdoms peninsular, with Muslims of the Maghreb and the Genoese across the Mediterranean, which made had a diversified economy.
However, it was gradually losing territory against the Crown of Castile, until their final demise after the War of Granada, held between 1482 and 1492. The Nasrid kingdom of Granada was the last Muslim state in the Iberian Peninsula, the ancient al-Andalus. After this was definitely incorporated into the Kingdom of Castile and Kingdom of Granada.

Origin and early.

After the defeat Almohad in 1212 at the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, began to gain importance in the southeast of al-Andalus the Nasrid dynasty of Arab descent whose founder was Alhamar (the Red), who was proclaimed Sultan in 1232, being recognized as such by the oligarchies of Guadix, Baza, Jaén, which joined the annexation of the Taifa of Málaga in 1238, or submission of Almería. In 1234 pleaded vassal power of Cordoba, but in 1236 Ferdinand III conquered that city and Alhamar became vassal of the Castilian king, allowing him to remain independent. In 1238 Alhamar conquering Granada extended their domains, but in 1246 Ferdinand III snatched Jaén, to consolidate their gains in the Guadalquivir valley, forcing Alhamar to sign the Covenant of Jaén, in which he recognized the Castilian monarch as lord of that territory and was forced to pay to get peace pariahs twenties.

To the beat that finalized the conquests of Ferdinand III in the Guadalquivir Valley, some uprisings took place as were the Rebellion Mudejar or Moorish Revolt of 1264, in the Kingdom of Seville and the Moorish kingdom of Murcia, both of very recent Joined the Crown of Castile. Despite the Grenadian military support, most of the Moorish population Guadalquivir Valley was expelled after the crackdown and moved to the United Nazari. There was a second major in Mudejar revolt of Aragon (mainly in the kingdom of Valencia) in 1276 (extended to 1304), in which the cavalry Granada intervened in support of the Mudejar rebels. Castile, Ferdinand III's death in 1252, was the only state that still maintained borders with Muslims, who had been reduced to the solid penibéticos and coastline from Barbate to Eagles and with a status of an area of ​​approximately about 30,000 km2. The border between the two kingdoms, known Morisca Band, was over 1000 km long.
Source Wikipedia.
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Date Taken: 2011-09-25 15:53
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