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LATE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURY
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The discovery of the New World in 1492 was very significant for the city, which became the European port of departure to America. It was a cosmopolitan and universal. Seville was already late fifteenth century one of the main ports in Castilian trade... |
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ANDALUSIAN PERIOD
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Musa, accompanied by his son Abd al-Aziz ibn Mussa, crossed the Strait with an army of 18,000 men and proceeded to the conquest of Visigothic territory. Occupied Medina Sidonia, Carmona and Seville, and then attacked Mérida, laying siege to the city,... |
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EARLY PERIODS
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Seville is more than 2,000 years old. The passage of the various civilizations, instrumental in its growth, has left the city a distinct personality, and a large and well-preserved historical centre. Although it has a strong medieval, renaissance and... |
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MOORISH ERA
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After the conquest of Seville by the Moors. Seville was taken by the Muslims in 712 and renamed Seville , derived from Hispalis, from which the present name "Sevilla" is derived. It was capitol for the Kings of the Umayyad Caliphate, the Almoravid dy... |
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SPANISH CONQUEST
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In 1247, the Christian King Ferdinand III of Castile and León began the conquest of Andalusia. After winning Jaén and Córdoba, seized from the surrounding villages, as Carmona, Alcalá del Río Lora del Río, placing the army in the vicinity of the city... |
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Seville fell very quickly at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. General Queipo de Llano carried out a coup within the city, quickly capturing the city centre. Radio Seville opposed the rising and called for the peasants to come to the ci... |
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POST-RECONQUISTA
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Following the 1492 Christopher Columbus expedition to the New World (from Seville's port), the results from his claiming territory and trade for the Crown of Castile (Spain) in the West Indies began to profit the city, as all goods imported from the ... |
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SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Sevilla falls into a deep economic decline and urban. It is suspected that the great plague epidemic of 1649 killed about 60,000 people, 46% of the existing population, from 130,000 to 70,000 Seville habita... |
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XXI CENTURY
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The century began under the administration of Mayor Alfredo Sanchez Monteseirín (PSOE), who holds the post of alderman in June 1999 with the support of the PA, having been the largest party PP. In 2003 return to be invested mayor, and this time the m... |
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VISIGOTHIC
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In the V century the city was taken successively by several Germanic invaders: Gunderic vandals in the year 426, the Swabians ruled by Requila in 441, and finally the Visigoths, who would control until the eighth century, for a time challenged by the... |
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