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LocationThe city is located in a small bay on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, south-west of the Iberian Peninsula and about 100kms of the Gibraltar Strait. It is surrounded by the mountains of Malaga and the Guadalhorce valley and it is crossed by the Guadalhorce and Guadalmina rivers. The municipality covers an area of about 398kms2 with a population of about 568 000 inhabitants is the sixth largest city in Spain. |
Origins
The city dates back to the beginning of VIII century b.c. when the Phoenicians founded a colony at the mouth of the Guadalhorce River which they called Malaka. Later it was inhabited by the Carthaginians until 202 b.c. when it passed to the hands of the Romans, becoming an important point on the Herculean Via, then it was connected with the rest of Spain and other Mediterranean ports. After the Council of Nicea (AD 325) and due to the settlement of Christianity in the area and the dismemberment of the Roman Empire, it became dominated by the Goths until the beginning of VIII century. When the Islam arrived the peninsula was definitely under the influence of Arabic in 743, becoming under his control a booming city, framed by a walled enclosure with five large doors and settlements of Genoese and Jewish merchants. |
