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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Andalusia |
 | | Many strangers visit Andalusia every year, especially in the spring, attracted by the beauty of its many historic monuments — pre-eminently, the cathedral and Alcazar of Seville, the cathedral of Cordova, and the Alhambra —; and also by the typically national character of the Holy Week services at Seville, and of Corpus Christi at Granada. |
| | Andalusia was inhabited in early historic times by a people of Iberian origin; the Turdetani occupied what are now the provinces of Seville and Huelva; the Turduli, Jaen, Cordova, and part of Granada; the Bastuli, Malaga, and the coast of Granada; and the Bastetani, Jaen, Guadix, Baza, and Almeria. |
| | Under the rule of the Emirs, subordinates of the Caliph of Damascus, and in the time of the Caliphate of Cordova, Andalusia was the centre of the political life and literary and artistic culture of the Arab people. |
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