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It was the decline of the Caliphate of Córdoba that began the end of tolerance of Jews in the Muslim-ruled parts of the Iberian Peninsula.
Criterion (iii): The Historic Centre of Córdoba is the highly relevant testimony to the Caliphate of Cordoba (929-1031): this city - which, it is said, enclosed 300 mosques and innumerable palaces - ...
“The Great Mosque of Cordoba.” That’s what Unesco —the cultural arm of the United Nations—calls the 24,000-square-foot 10th-century structure visited by 1.5 million tourists a year. It ...
The Caliphate city of Medina Azahara is an archaeological site of a city built in the mid-10th century CE by the Umayyad dynasty as the seat of the Caliphate of Cordoba. After prospering for several ...
The tranquil, orange-tree-lined patios of Cordoba in Andalusia belie mounting alarm in Spain and Europe as jihadists call for the restoration of caliphate rule in Muslim lands.
The organization announced on Sunday that the ancient Caliphate City of Medina Azahara in Spain and Ivrea in Italy would become two of 18 new additions to the register.
Since its launch, the restaurant has operated in ‘seasons’, each reflecting a different historical period — starting with the 10thcentury Caliphate of Córdoba in 2016.
Unesco described it as "an irreplaceable testimony of the Caliphate of Córdoba and […]the most emblematic monument of Islamic religious architecture." ...