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Murgaual (castle)

a Pleiades place resource

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A Spanish castle and village located in the north of the province of Córdoba that belonged to the kingdom of Alfonso X. Today it's known as Castillo de Murgabal or Castillo de Almogábar. It is part of the village of Torrecampo and the region of Fuencaliente.

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Base map by Ryan M. Horne for Pleiades and the Ancient World Mapping Center (ancient terrain after the Barrington Atlas). Map interaction design and implementation by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, and Tom Elliott for Pleiades.

Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/704285537

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
38.4744653, -4.6773881

Locations:

OSM location of modern Torrecampo (AD 640 - AD 1453)

Names:

Murgaual (Murgaual (castle): Spanish, AD 640 - AD 1453)
Torrecampo (Spanish, modern)

Murgaual (castle) makes connections with:

None

Murgaual (castle) receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement, fort, tower

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Initial Provenance:
Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies

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Suggested citation:
María Jesús Redondo, 'Murgaual (castle): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/704285537> [accessed: 01 June 2020]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/704285537 |title=Places: 704285537 (Murgaual (castle)) |author=Jesús Redondo, M. |accessdate=June 1, 2020 7:35 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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