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Las Alpujarras

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Also known as: Las Alpujarras Mountains
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Vicente Rodriguez
Research Scientist, Instituto de Economía y Geografía, Madrid, Spain. Co-author of Northern Europeans and the Mediterranean: A New California or a New Florida?; Southern Europe and the New Migrations...
Vicente Rodriguez
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Las Alpujarras, mountainous district spanning Granada and Almería provincias (provinces) in the Andalusia comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of southern Spain, stretching northward from the towns of Motril and Almería to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada and forming a trough between the latter and the coastal mountains. Deep fertile and secluded valleys have been cut by the Guadalfeo (west) and Andarax (east) rivers and by smaller streams. Many villages are located on ledges overhanging gorges, and it is to these villages that the name Alpujarras is sometimes more exclusively applied. Given to the vanquished Moorish leader Muḥammad XII (Boabdil) and ...(100 of 241 words)

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