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Population of the city of Málaga proper was 547,000 as of 2003 estimates. Population of the urban area was 814,000 as of 2005 estimates. Population of the metropolitan area (urban area plus satellite towns) was 1,019,000 as of 2003 estimates, ranking as the fifth largest metropolitan area in Spain. Malaga is surrounded by mountains, and two rivers, the Guadalmedina and the Guadalhorce, flow near the city into the Mediterranean. The inner city of Málaga is just behind the harbour. The quarters of El Perchel, La Trinidad and Lagunilla ...

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Málaga, Málaga - Overview, Málaga - History, Málaga - Tourism, Málaga - Sights in Málaga, Málaga - See Also, Málaga - Sports

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Abdera was an ancient seaport town on the south coast of Spain, between Malaca (now Málaga) and Carthago Nova (now Cartagena), in the district inhabited by the Bastuli. It was founded by the Carthaginians as a trading station, and after a period of decline became under the Romans one of the more important towns in the province of Hispania Baetica. It was situated on a hill above the modern Adra. Of its coins the most ancient bear the Phoenician inscription abdrt with the head of Heracles (Melkarth) and a tunny-fi ...

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1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). 1937 - Events. January 1 - Anastasio Somoza becomes President of Nicaragua January 11 - The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale in the United States. January 19 - Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds. January 23 - In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participatin ...

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• 1937 - Events
• 1937 - February
• 1937 - March
• 1937 - April
• 1937 - May
• 1937 - June
• 1937 - July
• 1937 - August
• 1937 - September
• 1937 - October
• 1937 - November
• 1937 - December
• 1937 - Unknown dates
• 1937 - Ongoing events
• 1937 - Births
• 1937 - January
• 1937 - February
• 1937 - March
• 1937 - April
• 1937 - May
• 1937 - June
• 1937 - July
• 1937 - August
• 1937 - September
• 1937 - October
• 1937 - November
• 1937 - December
• 1937 - Deaths
• 1937 - January-March
• 1937 - April-August
• 1937 - September-December
• 1937 - Nobel Prizes

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There are places that have the name Costa (Italian, Portuguese, Spanish for coast): Costa - Nation. Costa Rica Costa - In France. Costa, a commune of the Haute-Corse département, on the island of Corsica Costa - In Italy. Costa de' Nobili, in the province of Pavia Costa di Mezzate, in the province of Bergamo Costa di Rovigo, in the province of Rovigo Costa di Ser ...

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Arthur Koestler (Hungarian: Kösztler Artur; September 5, 1905 – March 3, 1983) was a journalist, novelist, political activist, social philosopher, and science writer. Born Hungarian and a naturalized British subject, he wrote a number of popular books, including Arrow in the Blue (the first volume of his autobiography); The Yogi and the Commissar (a collection of essays, many dealing with Communism); The Sleepwalkers (A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe); The Act of Creation; and Including:

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• Arthur Koestler - Women
• Arthur Koestler - Mixed legacy
• Arthur Koestler - Politics
• Arthur Koestler - Journalism
• Arthur Koestler - Science
• Arthur Koestler - Judaism
• Arthur Koestler - Cultural influence
• Arthur Koestler - Bibliography
• Arthur Koestler - Autobiography
• Arthur Koestler - Biographies
• Arthur Koestler - Books by Koestler excluding autobiography
• Arthur Koestler - Writings as a contributor

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The Kingdom of Nekor was an emirate in the Rif area of modern day Morocco, with its capital initially at Temsaman but later at Nekor. It was founded by an immigrant of southern Arabian origins, Salih I ibn Mansur al-Himyari in 710 AD, by Caliphal grant. He converted the local Berber tribes to Islam; they soon tired of the restrictions of the religion, and threw him out in favor of a person known as az-Zaydi from the Nafza tribe, but then changed their mind and took him back, and hi ...

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Córdoba is a province of southern Spain, in the north-central part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is bordered by the provinces of Málaga, Sevilla, Badajoz, Ciudad Real, Jaén, and Granada. Its area is 13,769 km². Its capital is Córdoba. Its population is 771,131 (2002), of whom more than 40% live in the capital, and its population density is 56.00/km². The province of Córdoba contains 75 municipalities. Córdoba Province Spain - Comarcas. Valle de los Pedroches Solie ...

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Antonio Banderas (born August 10, 1960), is a Spanish actor who was born José Antonio Domínguez Bandera in Málaga, Andalucía, Spain to Jose Domínguez, a State Department worker, and Ana Bandera, a teacher. As a child, Antonio Banderas wanted to play soccer professionally but his dream ended when he broke his foot at age 14. As a young man, he travelled, penniless, to Madrid in order to make a career in the Spanish film industry. He first gained wide attention through a series of films with La Mancha-born film direct ...

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• Antonio Banderas - Filmography

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Technically, ham is the thigh and buttock of any animal that is slaughtered for meat, but the term is usually restricted to a cut of pork, the haunch of a pig or boar. Although it can be cooked and served fresh, most ham is cured in some fashion. Ham can either be dry-cured or wet-cured. A dry-cured ham has been rubbed in a mixture containing salt and a variety of other ingredients. Most usually some proportion of sodium nitrate and sodium nitrite. Sugar is common in many dry cures in the United States. This is followed by a pe ...

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• Ham - National regulation of ham production
• Ham - USA
• Ham - Italy
• Ham - Spain
• Ham - 19th-century United States wet/dry curing recipe

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Phoenicia was an ancient civilization in the north of ancient Canaan, with its heartland along the coastal plain of what is now Lebanon, between the Lebanon Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea. Phoenician civilization was an enterprising maritime trading culture that spread right across the Mediterranean during the first millennium BC. Though ancient boundaries of such city-centered cultures fluctuated, the city of Tyre seems to have been the southernmost. Sarepta between Sidon and Tyre, is the most thoroughly excavated city of the Ph ...

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• Phoenicia - Origins
• Phoenicia - The cultural and economic empire
• Phoenicia - Phoenician trade
• Phoenicia - Decline
• Phoenicia - Persian and Hellenistic Phoenicia
• Phoenicia - Important Phoenician cities and colonies
• Phoenicia - Language and literature
• Phoenicia - External links
• Phoenicia - Phoenicians in the Bible

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1487 - Events. Richard Fox becomes Bishop of Exeter. May 24 - Lambert Simnel is crowned King "Henry VI of England" in Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland. He claims to be Edward, Earl of Warwick and rivals Henry VII for the throne of England. June 16 - Battle of Stoke Field. The rebellion of Lambert Simnel, who pretended to be Edward, Earl of Warwick, son of the Duke of Clarence, is crushed by troops loyal to Henry VII Publication of the witch-hunter manual Malleus Maleficarum ...

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Andalusia (Spanish: Andalucía) is a Historical Nationality of Spain like Catalonia or Basque Country. Andalusia is one of the seventeen autonomous communities that constitute Spain. Its capital is Seville. Andalusia is bounded on the north by Extremadura and Castile-La Mancha, on the east by Murcia, on the south by the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean and Gibraltar, and on the west by Portugal. Tartessos, the capital of a once great and powerful Civilization, was located in Andalusia, a ...

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Abdera was an ancient seaport town on the south coast of Spain, between Malaca (now Málaga) and Carthago Nova (now Cartagena), in the district inhabited by the Bastuli. It was founded by the Carthaginians as a trading station, and after a period of decline became under the Romans one of the more important towns in the province of Hispania Baetica. It was situated on a hill above the modern Adra. Of its coins the most ancient bear the Phoenician inscription abdrt with the head of Heracles (Melkarth) and a tunny-fi ...

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Algeria: 7,500,000 Tunisia:    200,000 Libya:    250,000+ Mauretania:    80,000 Egypt:    10,000 France:    1,000,000 Spain:    50,000 Israel:    50,000   Semitic The Berbers (also called Imazighen, "free men", singular Amazigh) are an ethnic group indigenous to Northwest Africa, speaking the Berber languages of the Afro ...

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• Berber - Genetic evidence
• Berber - Archaeological
• Berber - Linguistic
• Berber - Phenotype and genotype by region
• Berber - Coastal Northwest Africans
• Berber - Northwest Africans of the interior
• Berber - Saharan Northwest Africans
• Berber - Religions and beliefs
• Berber - History
• Berber - Berbers and the Islamic conquest
• Berber - Berbers in Al-Andalus
• Berber - Modern-day Berbers
• Berber - The Arabization of Northwest Africa
• Berber - Famous Berbers
• Berber - In ancient times
• Berber - In medieval times
• Berber - In modern times
• Berber - Famous people who were either Berber or Punic
• Berber - Famous people who may have had some Berber ancestors

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Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow) is a county on England's south west peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar. In the 20th century there has been a revival of the Cornish language and there has been some debate over the constitutional status of Cornwall. The administrative centre and only city is Truro. Including the Isles of Scilly, located 28 miles (45 km) offshore, Cornwall covers an area of 1,376 square miles (3,563 km²). There is a population of 513,527 with a population density of 144 people per square kilomet ...

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• Cornwall - Cornish studies and literary references
• Cornwall - Religion
• Cornwall - Music and festivals
• Cornwall - Sports and games
• Cornwall - Food
• Cornwall - Settlements
• Cornwall - Transport
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Solomon Ibn Gabriol, also Solomon ben Judah, is a Spanish Jewish poet and philosopher. He was born in Málaga about 1021; died about 1058 in Valencia. He is sometimes referred to as "Avicebron" in the West, a corruption of "Ibn Gabirol" ("Ibngebirol," "Avengebirol," "Avengebrol," "Avencebrol," "Avicebrol," "Avicebron"). Solomon Ibn Gabirol - Biography. Little is known of Gabirol's life. His parents died while he was a child. At seventeen years of age he became the friend and protégé of Jekut ...

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• Solomon Ibn Gabirol - Restorer of Neoplatonism
• Solomon Ibn Gabirol - Identity with Avicebron
• Solomon Ibn Gabirol - The Fons Vitæ
• Solomon Ibn Gabirol - Reconciling Neoplatonism with Jewish theology
• Solomon Ibn Gabirol - Effect upon his successors
• Solomon Ibn Gabirol - Influence on Scholasticism
• Solomon Ibn Gabirol - Ethical Treatise

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Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Full name) (October 25, 1881 in Málaga, Spain – April 8, 1973) was a Spanish painter and one of the most recognized figures in 20th century art, probably most famous as the co-founder, along with Georges Braque, of cubism. He worked mainly with paint, but had equal facility in oil, watercolour, pastels, charcoal, pencil and ink. He famously rendered complex scenes as just a few geometric shapes in his mixed-media cubist works, but also produced masterful realist portraits. Pablo Picasso - Pe ...

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The almond, Prunus dulcis (formerly classified as Prunus amygdalus, or Amygdalus communis) is a small deciduous tree belonging to the Subfamily Prunoideae of the Family Rosaceae. An almond is also the fruit of this tree. It is classified with the peach in the Subgenus Amygdalus within Prunus, distinguished from the other subgenera by the corrugated seed shell. The fruit lacks the sweet fleshy outer covering of other members of Prunus (such as the plum and cherry), this being replaced by ...

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• Almond - Culinary uses
• Almond - Production
• Almond - Pollination
• Almond - Cultural aspects
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Abd ar-Rahman I (ruled 756-788) was the founder of a Muslim dynasty that ruled Spain for nearly three centuries. He was a grandson of Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, the tenth Umayyad Caliph. When the Umayyads were overthrown in the East by the Abbasids he was a young man of about twenty years of age. Together with his brother Yahya, he took refuge with Bedouin tribes in the desert. The Abbasids hunted their enemies down without mercy. Their soldiers overtook the brothers; Yahya was slain, and Abd-ar-Rahman saved ...

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1601 - Events. February 8 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Elizabeth I of England - revolt is quickly crushed February 25 - Robert Devereux beheaded Jesuit Matteo Ricci arrives in China Bad harvest in Russia due to rainy summer Dutch troops drive Portuguese from Málaga Start of Siege of Kinsale, Ireland -- the siege started in the Autumn of 1601 and ended in the Battle of Kinsale, which happened on 3 January 1602 according to the G ...

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