An illustrated history of Cordoba

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The present literary work offers a brief biographical sketch of the extensive history of Cordoba, one of those cities capable of snatching and dazzling not only to those souls on alert for the passage of time, but also to the followers of the poetical evocation and the sensitive pleasure. A rigorous and pleasant story illustrated with a beautiful selection of photographies and with determined intention of style, but achieving to interest to a wide audience. From its prehistoric origins up to the thresholds of the XXI century, each chapter approaches the different epochs lived by a city with one of the most illustrious, rich and varied past in the world. Cordoba is the result of the coexistance, antagonisms and interchanges of different cultures: small settlement by the river, emulation of the imperial Rome as the capital of the Andalusia. Pioneer of the oriental luxury and exoticism as court of the omeyas emirs and caliphs, Border city with the Nazary kingdom, full of prestigious nobility heraldries and innumerable convents acting as islands and archipelagoes extensively spread in its Renaissance and Baroque urban fabric - now fed by the wealth of The Indies, now destroyed by crisis and epidemics. And, finally, modest and engrossed capital of provinces of the inner Spain. We do not know its future, but its past remains magnificently summarized in this book. After the reading one understands the secret soul of Cordoba. Frontispiece From prehistory to Roman Visigoth Cordoba Vestiges of Pre-Roman Cordoba Roman conquest and Corduba in the Republican period Colonia Patricia Corduba and the splendour of the Higher Empire From the Late Empire to Visigoth Cordoba Islamic or Andalusí Cordoba The Islamic conquest and settlement Caliphal Cordoba The decline of the Andalusí glory The late Middle Ages and modern Cordoba Christian conquest and resettlement From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment Contemporary Cordoba The 19th century The twentieth century