Málagaמלאגה

Al-Andalus

Málaga, a port on the Mediterranean coast of Andalusia, southern Spain, was founded by Phoenicians as Malake around 770 BCE and later became Roman Malaca. Taken by Arab and Berber forces in the early eighth century, it was an important harbour of al-Andalus under the Cordoban caliphate and the taifa kingdoms, and in the fifteenth century the main port of the Nasrid kingdom of Granada. The botanist and pharmacologist Ibn al-Baytar (d. 1248) was born there. Its Jewish community produced the poet and philosopher Solomon ibn Gabirol, born in Málaga around 1021, and Samuel ibn Naghrillah is said to have settled there after leaving Córdoba. Castile took the city in 1487 after a long siege.

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