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, variant forms Ḳūnḳa , Kūnka , Kūnkā , Kunka , the Arabic name for the modern town of Cuenca, administrative centre of the province of the same name in Castile, Spain, situated near the confluence of the Júcar and Huécar Rivers at an altitude of 922 m. at the point where the Mancha becomes a mountain chain. According to al-Idrīsī, Ḳūnḳa was “a small, ancient town, surrounded by a wall, and lacking a suburb”. Al-ʿUd̲h̲rī mentions it among the 20 stages of the route connecting Cordova and Saragossa. Al-Idrīsī mentions Cuenca in his division of al-Andalus into 26 iḳlīm s, but gives it the title of a kūr…

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, Arabic al-Mudawwar “round”, is the name of several towns in Spain and Portugal, as well as of a small river in the province of Cadiz, flowing from the South East into the Laguna de la Janda; A. del Rio below Cordova; A. del Campo (sc. de Calatrava), southwest of Ciudad Real; A. del Pinar in the province Cuenca; A. west of Mértola in South Portugal. (C. F. Seybold)

[German Version] 1. Alfonso de (c. 1500, Cuenca – Oct 6, 1532, Vienna), from 1520 or earlier secretary in the chancery of Emperor Charles V, for whose policies he acted as spokesman after 1525. He was present at the diets in Worms in 1521 and Augsburg in 1530, where he debated with Melanchthon. Heinz Scheible Bibliography J.C. Nieto, EncR IV, 1996, 212 E. Wenneker, BBKL XII, 1997, 1035–1037 K. Ganzer, LThK 3 X, 2001, 511. 2. Juan de (1509?, Cuenca – August 1541, Naples), brother of Alfonso; Spanish humanist and theologian. He began his studies in 1526 at the University of Alcalá, where he was greatly influenced by Juan and Francisco de Vergara, teachers with Lutheran sympathies who were Alumbrados and friends of Erasmus. After publishi…

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, Arabie Wādī Tād̲j̲oh, Latin Tagus, Spanish Tajo, Portuguese Tejo, the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula, rises in the Serrania de Cuenca at about 6,000 ft. Its length to its estuary at Lisbon is 550 miles (of which 190 are in Portuguese terrytory). Among the numerous places on its banks one may mention going down stream: Aranjuez, Algodor, Toledo and Talavera de la Reina, in Spain; Abrantès, Santarem and Lisbon, in Portugal. …

[Sumario de los Reyes de España] ca 1406-54. Castile (Iberia). Short chronicle composed by assembling the data on forty Spanish medieval kings, from Pelayo (8th century) to Enrique III (15th century). The Sumario has been attributed most frequently to Juan Rodríguez de Cuenca, but it is not clear who this was. The author identifies himself as dispenser of Queen …

[German Version] (1573, Malpartida de Plasencia – c.1633, Plasencia, Spain), OP (1587), historian and preacher. He was honored in 1618 at the General Chapter of Lisbon with the title Preacher General. Fernandez authored works on the history of the Dominicans in Spain, of which a few remain unpublished. He was prior in Zamora, Cuenca, Guadalajara, Cáceres and finally in Plasencia. Heinz Ohme Bibliography Works: Historia ecclesiastica de nuestros tiempos, 1611 Historia y anales de la devoción y milagros del Rosario, 1613 De los servicios que a los Reinos de España ha hecho la …

[German Version] (Sep 1535, Cuenca, Spain – Oct 12, 1600, Madrid) became a Jesuit in 1553 and studied philosophy as well as theology. He initally taught philosophy in Coimbra and theology in Evora from 1568. He was professor of moral theology at the Jesuit ¶ college in Madrid in the year of his death. In addition to making significant contributions to the fields of jurisprudence and political economy, Molina also strove to effect a rational assessment of the relationship between divine prescience and predetermination on the one hand and hu…

[German Version] Álvarez Carillo de Albornoz (c. 1302, Cuenca – 1367, near Viterbo) has been called the second founder of the Papal States. He was a cardinal, statesman, general, and professor of canon law at Toulouse; …

, Arab. Wādī or Nahr Yāna or Āna or Ānā (s. Yāḳūt), river Āna = Anas of the ancients, the Portuguese Odiana, the second most southerly of the four great rivers of the Iberian peninsula flowing into the Atlantic Ocean after parallel courses from N. E. to S. W., only navigable for 40 miles from its mouth, rises in the mountains of the eastern Iberian border of the central tableland (Meseta) in the Serrania de Cuenca, as, according to more recent geographers (notably Theobald Fischer), the Záncara (in the N. E.) …

b. ʿAbd al-Muʾmin , second ruler of the Muʾminid [ q.v.] (Almohad) dynasty, reigned 558-80/1163-84. He succeeded to the throne by a coup d’état, in spite of the official proclamation of his elder brother Muḥammad as crown-prince in 549/1154. It is true that Muḥammad ruled for ab…

Hispania included the entire Iberian Peninsula (today mainly Spain, but also the modern states of Portugal and Andorra), as well as other territories (the Balearic Islands); part of the westernmost part of North Africa – …

, a name by which three places are known: Carthage, Cartéia (Ḳarṭād̲j̲annat al-D̲j̲azīra) and Carthagena. This synonymy seems to be the cause of numerous confusions between the ancient Punic capital and Ḳarṭād̲j̲annat al-k̲h̲alfāʾ (and not al-k̲h̲uladāʾ as Yāḳūt interprets it). These confusions have been studied by J. Vallve, Carthage et Carthagène au VIII e siècle . The name of the town, seat of a bishopric, must be the translation of Cartago-Spartaria, alluding to the abundance of esparto grass in the region. According to al-Ḥimyārī ( Rawḍ al-miʿṭār , no. 139, who copies al-Idrīsī), “Carthagena is the port of Murcia. It is an ancient town, which dates from antiquity. I…

, the Tagus river, wādī Tād̲j̲uh (Port. Tejo, Span. Tajo), together with the Ebro [see ibruh ], the Douro and the Guadalquivir ( al-wādī al-kabīr ), one of the great rivers of the Iberian peninsula. Rising in the Serranía of Cuenca in Aragon, its course of over 1,000 km/600 miles, crosses the Castilian Meseta arid Estremadura and then enters Portugal, to debouch into the Atlantic in the Bay of Lisbon. It is mentioned by Arabic geographers essentially in passages dealing with the towns of Toledo (Ṭulayṭula), Talavera (Ṭalabīra), Santarem (S̲h̲antarīn) and Lisbon (Us̲h̲būna [ q.vv.]). Most…

, Spanish Alcira, called by the Muslims the island of the Júcar, since it is situated between two channels of the river Júcar, in Latin Sucro, one of which is now dry. 37 km. from Valencia, it has a population of about 30,000 and stands at the centre of a natural region known as the Ribera which includes the lower part of the Júcar valley, from Játiva to Catarroja and from the sea to the valley of Career. The fertile alluvial plain is one of the richest in the Peninsula. It is watered by the roy…

Calatrava (Ar., Qalʿat Rabāḥ) is the site of a city of Muslim Spain. The ruins are located in Calatrava la Vieja, a small hill covering almost five hectares (Illustration 1). It is fifteen kilometres north-northeast of Ciudad Real, on the left bank of the Guadiana River (Wādī Yāna), on the road that linked Córdoba and Toledo. During the Middle Ages it was a swampy area. It has been excavated continuously since 1984, revealing evidence of an Iberian village on the same site (fourth-sixth century …

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