Al-Andalus

Qādis قادس

Today: Cádiz, Spain

Years: 711–1262

The ancient island port played a modest part in al-Andalus: a fishing and trading town on the Atlantic route, remembered by the Arab geographers for its Roman ruins and for a famous idol, a tower said to stand on the shore, pulled down in 1145. Alfonso X took it in 1262.

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Arco del Pópulo (Puerta del Mar de Qādis): Gate, 12th century

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