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Zahara de la Sierra

Zahara de la Sierra is a village in the province of Cádiz, Spain, crowned by a Moorish castle above the Guadalete valley. A frontier fortress between Castile and the Nasrid Emirate of Granada, it was taken by Castile in 1407 and recaptured by the emir Abu al-Hasan Ali in December 1481, which Castile answered by seizing Alhama, starting the Granada War. Castile retook it in 1483.

Zahara de la Sierra
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Zahara de la Sierra. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/zahara-de-la-sierra
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The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Zahara de la Sierra’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/zahara-de-la-sierra (Accessed: ).

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