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Published: November 16th 2006
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Malaga
Malaga, Malaga - Spain Feb 9, 1994
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City official name :Malaga
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Founded date : *
Location :Malaga Province
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Elavation :? ft (? m)
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Area :Approximately ? square miles (? km²).
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Facts :Málaga is a port city in Andalusia, southern Spain, on the Costa del Sol coast of the Mediterranean. According the 2006 census the population is 558,287.
The Phoenicians founded the city Malaka here, in about 1000 BCE. The name Malaka is probably derived from the Phoenician word for salt because fish was salted near the harbour; in other Semitic languages the word for salt is still Hebrew מלח mélaḥ or Arabic ملح milḥ.
About six centuries later, the Romans conquered the city along with the other Spanish areas of Carthago. From the 5th century CE it was under the rule of the Visigoths.
In the 8th century, Spain was conquered by the Moors, and the city became an important centre of trade. Málaga was first a possession of the Caliphate of Cordoba. After the fall of the Umayyad dynasty, it became the capital of a distinct kingdom, dependent on Granada. During this time, the city was called Mālaqah (Arabic مالقة).
At a late stage
Malaga
Malaga, Malaga - Spain of the reconquista, the reconquering of Spain, Málaga became Christian again, in 1487.
Málaga underwent fierce bombing by the Italian and Francoist insurgent air forces during the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Tourism on the adjacent Costa del Sol boosted the city's economy in the 1960s.
The magnum opus of Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona, "Malagueña", is named for the music of the gypsies of this region of Spain.
Under the Visigoths Málaga was made an episcopal see. The earliest known bishop was Patricius, consecrated about 290, and present at the Council of Eliberis (in present Elvira). Hostegesis governed the see from 845 to 864.
After the battle of Guadalete the city passed into the hands of the Arabs, and the bishopric was suppressed under both Moorish states.
In 1487 Isabel and Fernando besieged the city, which after a desperate resistance was compelled to surrender; and with the Christian religion, the episcopal see was restored. The first bishop after the restoration was Pedro Díaz.
The see was vacant from 1835 to 1848. The Catholic diocese was, by the Concordat of 1851, made a suffragan of the archbishopric of Granada, having previously been dependent on the
Malaga
Malaga, Malaga - Spain archbishopric of Seville.
Since the concordat of 1851 the Cathedral Chapter has numbered 20 canons and 11 beneficed clerics. There were in the diocese (1910) 520,000 Catholics, a few Protestants: 123 parishes, 481 priests, and 200 churches and chapels; the Augustinian Fathers had a college at Ronda; the Piarists were teaching at Archidona and the Brothers of St. John of God had schools at Antequera, at which place there is also a Capuchin monastery. In the town of Málaga were convents for women, including Bernardines, Cisterians, Augustinians, Poor Clares, Carmelites and Dominicans. The Little Sisters of the Poor maintain homes for the aged and infirm at Málaga, Antequera and Ronda.
Nowadays in Málaga there is a big religious offer from Occident and Orient: Most of the citizens declare themselves to be catholics. One of his most beautiful churches is the "Santuario de la Virgen Victoria". Islam is also represented with the construction of a new mosque. It will be the greatest until the one in Seville is built and becomes the hugest of Europe. The Evangelic are also there making themselves known through a variety of different activities and social labor. The Jew Community in Málaga is represented
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Malaga, Malaga - Spain by its synagogue near Málaga. It is also possible to visit the Hindi Temple and Budist Shrine en Benalmadena, only 12 Miles away from Málaga. This Buddist Shrine is the biggest of Europe
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