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	Abencerrages - LoveToKnow 1911
		ABENCERRAGES, a family or faction that is said to have held a prominent position in the Moorish kingdom of Granada in the 15th century.
		Nothing is known of the family with certainty; but the name is familiar from the interesting romance of Gines Perez de Hita, Guerras civiles de Granada, which celebrates the feuds of the Abencerrages and the rival family of the Zegris, and the cruel treatment to which the former were subjected.
		The hall of the Abencerrages in the Alhambra takes its name from being the reputed scene of the massacre of the family.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Abencerrages (165 words)

	Abencerrages
		Abencerrages, was a family or faction that is said to have held a prominent position in the Moorish[?] kingdom of Granada in the 15th century.
		Nothing is known of the family with certainty; but the name is familiar from the interesting romance of Ginés Perez de Hita, Guerras civiles de Granada, which celebrates the feuds of the Abencerrages and the rival family of the Zegris, and the cruel treatment to which the former were subjected.
		The hall of the Abencerrages in the Alhambra takes its name from being the reputed scene of the massacre of the family.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ab/Abencerrages.html (157 words)

	The Abencerrages.
		The Abencerrages flourished for a time at Cordova; but probably repaired to Granada after the downfall of the Western Caliphat; it was there they attained their historical and romantic celebrity, being foremost among the splendid chivalry which graced the court of the Alhambra.
		The Abencerrages stood by the failing fortunes of Muhamed throughout the struggle; their last stand was at Loxa, where their chief, the vizier Yusef Aben Zeragh, fell bravely fighting, and many of their noblest cavaliers were slain: in fact, in that disastrous war the fortunes of the family were nearly wrecked.
		The Abencerrages continued intrepid, as they were loyal, in their adherence to the cause of Ayxa and her son Boabdil, throughout the war which ensued, while the Venegas were ever foremost in the ranks of Muley Abul Hassan and El Zagal.
	www.globusz.com /ebooks/Alhambra/00000027.htm (3265 words)

	Brief Guide to the Alhambra Palace and Generalife Gardens
		The poem inscribed on the fountain tells how much fiercer the lions would look if they weren't so restrained by their respect for the sultan.
		The Hall of the Abencerrages is named after a powerful Moorish family of which Boabdil's father murdered sixteen princes.
		The dark stain in the fountain is popularly believed to be their blood.
	www.almunecar.com /Visitors_Guide/Excursions/Alhambra.html (825 words)

	The Alhambra - Granada: Hall of the Abencerrages, spain
		OPPOSITE to the Sala de dos Hermanas, is the Sala de los Abencerrages, or Hall of the Abencerrages, so called from the massacre of that illustrious tribe; which is said to have been here perpetrated by Boabdil, the last king of Granada.
		The Abencerrages were one of the noblest tribes in that city, and objects of envy to the Zegris and Gomeles, by whom they were falsely accused of treason to the King, and one of them was charged with illicit intercourse with the Queen.
		The Hall of the Abencerrages appears to have been a central saloon communicating with the other apartments of the palace.
	www.carmalaga.com /alhambra/hall-abencerrages.htm (365 words)

	Abencerrages at AllExperts
		The story is told that one of the Abencerrages, having fallen in love with a lady of the royal family, was caught in the act of climbing up to her window.
		The apartment where this is to have taken place is one of the most beautiful courts of the Alhambra, and is still called the Hall of the Abencerrages.
		Many poems and plays, and one opera (Les Abencerrages, by Cherubini) mention the legend, but the whole story is doubtful, because the best historians do not mention it.
	en.allexperts.com /e/a/ab/abencerrages.htm (320 words)

	Abencerrages (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Sala de Abencerrages has a rather gory history - this is where the entire family of Abencerrages, a nobleman, was murdered by the king.
		The story is told that one of the Abencerrages, having fallen in love with a lady of the royal family, was caught in the act of climbing up to her window.
		The apartment where this is to have taken place is one of the most beautiful courts of the Alhambra, and is still called the Hall of the Abencerrages.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/a/ab/abencerrages.html (281 words)

	The Alhambra
		There are four fountains under the Gate of justice, as many under the entrance-gate, and another in the Hall of the Abencerrages, without counting the Taza de las Leanes, which, not content with vomiting water through the mouths of its twelve monsters, tosses a jet towards the sky through the mushroom-cap which sur mounts it.
		The other Abencerrages would have shared the same fate if it had not been for the devotion of a little page who, at the risk of his own life, ran to warn the sur vivors from entering the fatal court.
		I am not sure that I did not see the Abencerrages walking through the moonlit galleries carrying their heads under their arms: anyhow the shadows of the columns always assumed forms that were diabolically suspicious, and the breeze as it passed through the arches made me wonder if it was not a human breath.
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	Other Information of- Abencerrages. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Abencerrages, was a famiɭy or faction that is said to have heɭd a prominent position in the Moorish kingdom of Granada in the 15th century.
		Nothing is known of the famiɭy with certainty; but the name is famiɭiar from the interesting romance of Gines Perez de Hita, Guerras civiɭes de Granada, which ceɭebrates the feuds of the Abencerrages and the rivaɭ famiɭy of the Zegris, and the crueɭ treatment to which the former were subjected.
		The story is toɭd that one of the Abencerrages, having faɭɭen in ɭove with a ɭady of the royaɭ famiɭy, was caught in the act of cɭimbing up to her window.
	abencerrages.en.moneylist.info (4421 words)

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		The Sala de Abencerrages has a rather gory history - this is where the entire family of Abencerrages, a nobleman, was murdered by the king.
		Abencerrages' fault was that he dared to dally with Zoraya, the harem favourite of Abu Alahmar.
		Off this patio is the Jardin de la Sultana, the same garden in which the Emir caught Abencerrage flirting with his favourite concubine.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=20061103000106600.htm&date=fl2321/&prd=fline& (2085 words)

	Recollections of the Alhambra - Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies - Washington Irving, Book, etext
		In the silent and deserted halls of the Alhambra; surrounded with the insignia of regal sway, and the still vivid, though dilapidated traces of oriental voluptuousness, I was in the strong-hold of Moorish story, and every thing spoke and breathed of the glorious days of Granada, when under the dominion of the crescent.
		The veterans of the family, who sat in the royal council, were the foremost to devise those heroic enterprises, which carried dismay into the territories of the Christians; and what the sages of the family devised, the young men of the name were the foremost to execute.
		The Abencerrages were her favorite heroes; she felt a woman’s admiration of their gallant courtesy, and high-souled honor; and it was touching and inspiring to hear the praises of that generous but devoted race, chanted in this fated hall of their calamity, by the lips of Spanish beauty.
	whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au /words/authors/I/IrvingWashington/prose/wolfertsroost/alhambra.html (968 words)

	The Hall of the Abencerrages, the Alhambra, Granada, 1853 Giclee Print by Leon Auguste Asselineau at AllPosters.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Hall of the Abencerrages, the Alhambra, Granada, 1853 by Leon Auguste Asselineau
		The Giclee printing process delivers a fine stream of ink on archival paper, resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery display.
		The Hall of the Abencerrages, the Alhambra, Granada, 1853
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	Amazon.com: abencerrages (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The civil wars of Granada: And the history of the factions of the Zegries and Abencerrages, two noble families of that city, to the final conquest by Ferdinand and Isabella by GineÌs PeÌrez de Hita (Unknown Binding - 1803)
		king of Granada, invited the Abencerrages chiefs to a banquet in...
		the twelfth, and by the Abencerrages of Granada as late as...
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	Familiar Spanish Travels eBook
		The floor is not only gravel, and the lions are not only more like sheep, but the environing architecture and decoration are of a faded prettiness which cannot bear comparison with the fresh rougeing, equally Moorish, of the Alcazar at Seville.
		Was this indeed the place where the Abencerrages were brought in from supper one by one and beheaded into the fountain at the behest of their royal host?
		The quick and subtle Arabian witlings redoubled their light attacks on the stately Spaniard, but when one of them, of the race of the Abencerrages dared to question, with a sneer, the immaculate conception of the blessed Virgin, the Catholic knight could no longer restrain his ire.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/7430/162.html (447 words)

	Abencerrages Clipart
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		Description: "Capital and Springing of Arch, from the Hall of Abencerrages, Alhambra." — Encyclopedia Britanica, 1893
		Source: The Encyclopedia Britannica, New Warner Edition (New York: The Werner Company, 1893)
	etc.usf.edu /clipart/26000/26062/abencerrages_26062.htm (168 words)

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		Zoroya was approaching middle age, and worried that the Sultan might disinherit her son in favor of Ayesha's future children.
		Of course, the story of an assignation between the Sultana Zoroya and a member of the Abencerrages, and a subsequent beheading of many of the clan, is more luridly appealing.
		Historians and bards must always be careful to pass on as much of the truth as possible, however tempted one may be to pass on the better story.
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	Encyclopedia.com - Abencerrages (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Abencerrages, was a famіly or factіon that іs saіd to have held a promіnent posіtіon іn the Moorіsh kіngdom of Granada іn the 15th century.
		Nothіng іs known of the famіly wіth certaіnty; but the name іs famіlіar from the іnterestіng romance of Gіnes Perez de Hіta, Guerras cіvіles de Granada, whіch celebrates the feuds of the Abencerrages and the rіval famіly of the Zegrіs, and the cruel treatment to whіch the former were subjected.
		The story іs told that one of the Abencerrages, havіng fallen іn love wіth a lady of the royal famіly, was caught іn the act of clіmbіng up to her wіndow.
	gold-e.info /1917 (546 words)

	E-books - 1800-1899/irving_alhambra_67 - the best english and american e books in net (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Abencerrages, on the contrary, rallied round the sultana Ayxa;
		The massacre of the Abencerrages in the halls of the Alhambra, is
		Abencerrages remained true to their faith, true to their king, true to
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		Abencerrages, may serve to exculpate the unfortunate Boabdil from
		Abencerrages at Loxa, had fallen some of the brightest of the
		Abencerrages he chose as viziers Abdelbar, one of the worthiest of
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		His father, brought up as a Moslem.* From him sprang the vizier, Abul Cacim the court of Muley Abul Hassan, and they had about them numerous in faith, they were all drawn to Zoraya by the tie of foreign and disparagement of Ayxa la Horra and her son Boabdil.
		The latter, on of the Abencerrages and by Aben Comixa, alcayde of the Alhambra; of Muley Abul Hassan became the scene of inveterate jealousies and and civil wars.** *Cura de los Palacios, Hist.
		It is to be noted that several historians have erroneously Horra, and the Abencerrages** as the opponents of Boabdil, instead to the most reliable authorities.
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	The Alhambra by Washington Irving : Arthur's Classic Novels
		On one side of the court a rich portal opens into the Hall of the Abencerrages; so called from the gallant cavaliers of that illustrious line who were here perfidiously massacred.
		These sounds were made by the spirits of the murdered Abencerrages, who nightly haunt the scene of their suffering and invoke the vengeance of Heaven on their destroyer.
		The sounds in question had no doubt been produced, as I had afterwards an opportunity of ascertaining, by the bubbling currents and tinkling falls of water conducted under the pavement through pipes and channels to supply the fountains; but I was too considerate to intimate such an idea to the humble chronicler of the Alhambra.
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	ABENCERRAGES - Online Information article about ABENCERRAGES
		Hita, Guerras civiles de Granada, which celebrates the feuds of the Abencerrages and the See also:
		des Abencerrages are imitations of Perez de Hita's See also:
		HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /A10_ADA/ABENCERRAGES.html (370 words)

	Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada By Washington Irving (1850)- Chapter 29 from Nalanda Digital Library at NIT Calicut
		He found the sultana Ayxa la Horra in one of the saloons with Aben Haxig, a younger brother of the monarch, and several Abencerrages, who rallied round them to protect them.
		In his fury he slew the prince Aben Haxig, and his followers fell upon and massacred the Abencerrages.
		As to the proud sultana, she was borne away prisoner and loaded with revilings as having upheld her son in his rebellion and fomented a civil war.
	www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in /resources/english/etext-project/history/granada/chapter29.html (1082 words)

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		Nothing is known of the family with certainty; but the name is familiar from the interesting romance of Gines Perez de Hita, Guerras civiles de Granada, which celebrates the feuds of the Abencerrages and the rival family of the Zegris, and the cruel treatment tAwhich the former were subjected.
		de Floridn's Gonsalve de Cordoue and Chateaubriand's Le dernier des Abencerrages are imitations of Perez de Hita's work.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=191 (185 words)

	The Young Enthusiast » 2004 » December
		Plot Summary: Two factions, the Abencerrages (led by Abdelmelech) and the Zegrys (led by Zulema), are fighting for control of Granada.
		When a battle breaks out between the two factions within the city walls, Almanzor—an extremely powerful warrior—insisting that he doesn’t have time to decide which side’s cause is best, joins with the Abencerrages because they seem to be at a disadvantage.
		He is disarmed and taken prisoner, but when King Boabdelin’s entreaties to the two factions to stop fighting come to no end, Almanzor, by the sheer force of his will and the power of his voice, ends the skirmish.
	www.deadmetaphor.com /18cblog/?m=20041210 (3353 words)

	Alhambra: Tall Tales from High Hills
		These sounds were made by the spirits of the murdered Abencerrages, who nightly haunt the scene of their suffering and invoke the vengeance of Heaven on their destroyer,” recounts Irving.
		More likely, the sounds were the gurgling of the underground water pipes as water was being turned off for the night, surmises Irving further.
		“There was once an invalid soldier, who had charge of the Alhambra to show it to strangers; as he was one evening, about twilight, passing through the court of Lions, he heard footsteps on the hall of the Abencerrages.
	www.kaiku.com /alhambra.html (1531 words)

	A BRIEF HISTORY OF MOORISH SPAIN
		The true conqueror of Granada is Boabdil, the rebel and the traitor,- who has been euphemistically surnamed the Unlucky (El Zogoibi).
		Innocent, perchance, of the massacre of the brave Abencerrages, he is guilty of the blood of his country.
		The capture of Velez Malaga by Ferdinand, already w ell supplied with a powerful train of artillery, in April, 148; while El Zagal was fighting for his life against Boabdil in Granada, was soon followed by the reduction, after a most heroic defense, of the far more important city of Malaga in August, l 487.
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