Al-Andalus

Lūrqa لورقة

Today: Lorca, Spain

Years
713–1244

A hilltop fortress town in the Tudmīr region, Lūrqa guarded the road between Murcia and Almería; Castile took it in 1244 and it stayed a frontier town facing Granada for two centuries.

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