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18 AUGUST 1487
Malaga surrenders to the Christian forces of Isabella of Castile and Fernando de Aragon. Malaga was at that time part of the Emirate of Granada, which eventually fell in 1492.
A century earlier the Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta had described Malaga as “one of the largest and most beautiful towns of Andalusia [uniting] the conveniences of both sea and land, and is abundantly supplied with foodstuffs and fruits” [quoted in Wikipedia ‘Malaga’].
(Photograph of the Patio de los Naranjos in the Alcazaba, Malaga, by D Preis)
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