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Ronan Whittern - Calle Alcazabilla, M​á​laga, Spain

from Rocks I Have Taken by Maria Sappho

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Calle Alcazabilla, Málaga, Spain

This is the story of a city that everyone wanted. Malaga’s history spans about 2,800 years, which makes it one of the oldest cities in the world. The first settlers being thought of as the Bastetani, an ancient Iberian tribe. The Phoenicians founded their colony ‘Malaka’ which means to salt, in about 770BC. In the 6th century came the Greeks, and the Romans followed, who where colonising Spain in 218 BC. They stayed for more than six centuries. The decline of the Roman imperial power in the 5th century led to invasions, the visigoths where one of two branches of the Germanic Goths who tried to invade in 490AD. The Byzantine Emperor Justinian force captured the city for a time and where eventually eradicated by 630AD. In 711AD the Moors invaded Spain and re-named AL-Andalus. And in 1637 the Bubonic Plague Invaded and then the Yellow Fever epidemic in 1803. Napeolen invaded next in 1808. During the Civil War the city was outwardly republican and as Franco´s nationalist forces moved south and in 1936 Nationalists controlled everything from the south leaving only a 20km strip and Malaga in republican hands. It is now today invaded by many tourists each year, many of them British.

A 19th-century reconstruction of Moorish Malaqah

This rock was taken from Calle Alcazabilla, a citadel build in the early 11th century. Adjacent to it sits the remnants of a Roman theatre dating tot eh 1st century.

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Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Visigoths, Moors, Christians, Bubonic Plague, Yellow Fever, French, Franco, tourists (many British)


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Málaga.
www.andalucia.com/cities/malaga/history.htm
www.andalucia.com/cities/malaga/gibralfaro.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcazaba_of_Málaga

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from Rocks I Have Taken, released April 30, 2020
Ronan Whittern

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