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Lucena, Córdoba, the Glossary

Lucena is a municipality of Spain belonging to the province of Córdoba, in the autonomous community of Andalusia.^[1]

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ABC (newspaper)

ABC is a Spanish national daily newspaper.

Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra (ר׳ אַבְרָהָם בֶּן מֵאִיר אִבְּן עֶזְרָא ʾAḇrāhām ben Mēʾīr ʾībən ʾĒzrāʾ, often abbreviated as; إبراهيمالمجيد ابن عزرا Ibrāhim al-Mājid ibn Ezra; also known as Abenezra or simply Ibn Ezra, 1089 / 1092 – 27 January 1164 / 23 January 1167)Jewish Encyclopedia; Chambers Biographical Dictionary gives the dates 1092/93 – 1167 was one of the most distinguished Jewish biblical commentators and philosophers of the Middle Ages.

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Al-Andalus

Al-Andalus was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Almohad Caliphate

The Almohad Caliphate (خِلَافَةُ ٱلْمُوَحِّدِينَ or دَوْلَةُ ٱلْمُوَحِّدِينَ or ٱلدَّوْلَةُ ٱلْمُوَحِّدِيَّةُ from unity of God) or Almohad Empire was a North African Berber Muslim empire founded in the 12th century.

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Almoravid dynasty

The Almoravid dynasty (lit) was a Berber Muslim dynasty centered in the territory of present-day Morocco.

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Andalusia

Andalusia (Andalucía) is the southernmost autonomous community in Peninsular Spain.

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Antequera

Antequera is a city and municipality in the Comarca de Antequera, province of Málaga, part of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia.

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Antonio Mohedano

Antonio Mohedano (1561–1625) was a Spanish painter of the Renaissance period.

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Autonomous communities of Spain

In Spain, an autonomous community (comunidad autónoma) is the first sub-national level of political and administrative division, created in accordance with the Spanish Constitution of 1978, with the aim of guaranteeing limited autonomy of the nationalities and regions that make up Spain.

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Baetic Depression

The Baetic Depression (Depresión Bética or Depresión del Guadalquivir) is an alluvial plain in the lower valley of the Guadalquivir in Andalusia, Spain.

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Battle of Lucena

The Battle of Lucena, also called Battle of Martín González, was a war event in which Christian forces of the Crown of Castile were faced against the Muslim forces of the Nasrid Emirate of Granada.

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Brigandage

Brigandage is the life and practice of highway robbery and plunder.

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Cabra, Spain

Cabra is a municipality in Córdoba province, Andalusia, Spain and the site of former bishopric Egabro. Lucena, Córdoba and Cabra, Spain are Municipalities in the Province of Córdoba (Spain).

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Córdoba (newspaper)

Córdoba, sometimes called Diario Córdoba, is a Spanish language newspaper from the city of Córdoba and is the major source of news from the province.

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Córdoba, Spain

Córdoba, or sometimes Cordova, is a city in Andalusia, Spain, and the capital of the province of Córdoba. Lucena, Córdoba and Córdoba, Spain are Historic Jewish communities in Europe and Municipalities in the Province of Córdoba (Spain).

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City

A city is a human settlement of a notable size.

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Complutense University of Madrid

The Complutense University of Madrid (Universidad Complutense de Madrid; UCM, Universidad de Madrid, Universidad Central de Madrid; Universitas Complutensis Matritensis) is a public research university located in Madrid.

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Converso

A converso (feminine form conversa), "convert", was a Jew who converted to Catholicism in Spain or Portugal, particularly during the 14th and 15th centuries, or one of their descendants.

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Crown of Castile

The Crown of Castile was a medieval polity in the Iberian Peninsula that formed in 1230 as a result of the third and definitive union of the crowns and, some decades later, the parliaments of the kingdoms of Castile and León upon the accession of the then Castilian king, Ferdinand III, to the vacant Leonese throne.

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Eleanor de Guzmán

Leonor (Eleanor) de Guzmán y Ponce de León (1310–1351) was a Castilian noblewoman.

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Emirate of Granada

The Emirate of Granada, also known as the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada, was an Islamic polity in the southern Iberian Peninsula during the Late Middle Ages, ruled by the Nasrid dynasty.

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Fitna of al-Andalus

The Fitna of al-Andalus (1009–1031) was a civil war in the Caliphate of Córdoba.

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Francisco Hurtado Izquierdo

Francisco Hurtado Izquierdo y Fernández (10 February 1669 – 30 June 1725) was a Spanish architect of the Baroque period, author of the Sancta Sanctorum (sacristy) in the Granada Charterhouse.

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Fuero

Fuero, Fur, Foro or Foru is a Spanish legal term and concept.

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Granada

Granada is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain.

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Granada Charterhouse

Granada Charterhouse (Cartuja de Granada) is a Carthusian monastery in Granada, Spain.

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Granada War

The Granada War (Guerra de Granada) was a series of military campaigns between 1482 and 1492 during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, against the Nasrid dynasty's Emirate of Granada.

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Grupo Joly

Grupo Joly is a Spanish publishing company which started operating in 1867 in Andalusia, southern Spain, publishing Diario de Cádiz.

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Grupo Vocento

Vocento, S.A., also known as Grupo Vocento, is a Spanish mass media group.

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History of slavery

The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day.

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Isaac Albalia

Isaac ben Baruch Albalia (Yiṣḥaq ben Barukh Albalia; 1035–1094) was an Andalusian Jewish mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, and Talmudist.

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Isaac Alfasi

Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi (1013–1103) (إسحاق الفاسي, ר' יצחק אלפסי), also known as the Alfasi or by his Hebrew acronym, the Rif (Rabbi Isaac al-Fasi), was a Maghrebi Talmudist and posek (decider in matters of halakha - Jewish law).

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Isaac ibn Ghiyyat

Isaac ben Judah ibn Ghiyyat (or Ghayyat) (Yīṣḥāq ben Yəhūdā ʾībən Gāyyat, ibn Ghayyāth) (1030/1038–1089) was a Spanish rabbi, Biblical commentator, codifier of Jewish law, philosopher, and liturgical poet.

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Jewish cemetery, Lucena

The Jewish necropolis of Lucena is a Jewish cemetery in Lucena, Spain.

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Joseph ibn Migash

Joseph ibn Migash or Joseph ben Meir HaLevi ibn Migash or Yosef Ibn Meir Ha-Levi Ibn Megas or José ben Meir ibn Megas (early 1077 – c. 1141) (יוסף בן מאיר הלוי אבן מיגאש) was a Rabbi, Posek, and Rosh Yeshiva in Lucena (actually Spain).

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Kingdom of Córdoba

The Kingdom of Córdoba (also Kingdom of Cordova; Reino de Córdoba) was a territorial jurisdiction of the Crown of Castile since 1236 until Javier de Burgos' provincial division of Spain in 1833.

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Kura (al-Andalus)

The Kūra was one of the territorial demarcations into which al-Andalus, the ancient Islamic Iberian Peninsula, was divided during the Emirate and Caliphate of Córdoba.

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Lucena position

The Lucena position is one of the most famous and important positions in chess endgame theory, where one side has a rook and a pawn and the defender has a rook.

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Luis Barahona de Soto

Luis Barahona de Soto (1548 – 5 November 1595) was a Spanish poet.

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Luis Ramírez de Lucena

Luis Ramírez de Lucena (c. 1465 – c. 1530) was a Spanish chess player who published the first extant chess book.

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Málaga

Málaga is a municipality of Spain, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the autonomous community of Andalusia.

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Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 NS) was an Early Modern Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists.

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Municipalities of Spain

The municipality (municipio,, municipi, concello, udalerria, conceyu)In other languages of Spain.

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Museo del Prado

The Museo del Prado, officially known as Museo Nacional del Prado, is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid.

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Paco de Lucena

Paco de Lucena, born Francisco Díaz Fernández (1859 – 1898 in Lucena) was a Spanish guitarist, and one of the most influential flamenco players of the late nineteenth century.

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Pedro Roldán

Pedro Roldán (1624–1699) was a Baroque sculptor from Seville, Andalusia, Spain.

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Posek

In Jewish law, a posek (פוסק, pl. poskim) is a legal scholar who determines the application of halakha, the Jewish religious laws derived from the written and Oral Torah, in cases of Jewish law where previous authorities are inconclusive, or in those situations where no clear halakhic precedent exists.

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Priego de Córdoba

Priego de Córdoba is a town and municipality of Spain located in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Lucena, Córdoba and Priego de Córdoba are Municipalities in the Province of Córdoba (Spain).

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Province of Córdoba (Spain)

Córdoba, also called Cordova in English, is one of the 50 provinces of Spain, in the north-central part of the autonomous community of Andalusia.

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Provinces of Spain

A province in Spain.

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Rabbi

A rabbi (רַבִּי|translit.

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Regional Government of Andalusia

The Regional Government of Andalusia (Junta de Andalucía) is the government of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia.

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Responsa

Responsa (plural of Latin responsum, 'answer') comprise a body of written decisions and rulings given by legal scholars in response to questions addressed to them.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Córdoba

The Diocese of Córdoba (Dioecesis Cordubensis) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church located in the city of Córdoba in the ecclesiastical province of Sevilla in Spain.

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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Rosh yeshiva

Rosh yeshiva (ראש ישיבה, pl. ראשי ישיבה,; Anglicized pl. rosh yeshivas) is the title given to the dean of a yeshiva, a Jewish educational institution that focuses on the study of traditional religious texts, primarily the Talmud and the Torah, and halakha (Jewish law).

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Seville

Seville (Sevilla) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Subbaetic System

The Subbaetic or Sub-Baetic System (Sistema Subbético or Cordillera Subbética) is one of the three systems of mountain ranges of the Baetic System in the southern Iberian Peninsula.

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Tabernacle

According to the Hebrew Bible, the tabernacle (residence, dwelling place), also known as the Tent of the Congregation (ʔōhel mōʕēḏ, also Tent of Meeting), was the portable earthly dwelling of God used by the Israelites from the Exodus until the conquest of Canaan.

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Taifa of Granada

The Taifa of Granada (rtl, Ta'ifat Gharnata) or Zirid Kingdom of Granada was a Muslim kingdom that was formed in al-Andalus (in present-day Spain) in 1013 following the deposition of Caliph Hisham II in 1009.

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Tinaja

A tinaja is a surface pocket (depression) formed in bedrock that occurs below waterfalls, that is carved out by spring flow or seepage, or that is caused by sand and gravel scouring in intermittent streams (arroyos).

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Toledo, Spain

Toledo is a city and municipality of Spain, the capital of the province of Toledo and the de jure seat of the government and parliament of the autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha.

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Umayyad state of Córdoba

The Umayyad state of Córdoba was an Arab Islamic state ruled by the Umayyad dynasty from 756 to 1031.

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University of Córdoba (Spain)

The University of Córdoba (Spanish: Universidad de Córdoba, UCO), is a university in Córdoba, in Andalusia, Spain, chartered in 1972.

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University of Granada

The University of Granada (Universidad de Granada, UGR) is a public university located in the city of Granada, Spain, and founded in 1531 by Emperor Charles V. With more than 60,000 students, it is the fourth largest university in Spain.

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Víctor Pérez (director)

Víctor Raúl Pérez Raya (born 11 February 1981) is a Spanish-born British film director, producer, screenwriter and visual effects artist who has worked on a number of Hollywood films, including The Dark Knight Rises (Dir. Christopher Nolan, 2012), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Dir.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucena,_Córdoba

Also known as Eliossana, Lucena, Spain.

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