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Medina Azahara

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker

Contributors: Gabriel Mckee

Last modified Jun 09, 2021 04:49 PM — History

tags: UWHS

The Caliphate City of Medina Azahara is a city built in the mid-tenth century CE by the Umayyad dynasty as the seat of the Caliphate of Cordoba.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/410216618

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
37.8862372502, -4.86737163174

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Medinat al-Zahra (AD 900 - AD 1099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM location of Medina Azahra - Conjunto Arqueológico Madinat al-Zahra (AD 900 - AD 1099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Labels (map, atlas, gazetteer):
- Caliphate City of Medina Azahara (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)

Medina Azahara makes connections with:

None

Medina Azahara receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement, architectural complex

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See Also:

Wikipedia (English) Caliphate of Córdoba

Related:

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

The site was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2018.

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, and Gabriel Mckee, 'Medina Azahara: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/410216618> [accessed: 19 April 2024]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/410216618 |title=Places: 410216618 (Medina Azahara) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=April 19, 2024 7:38 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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Medina Azahara