Historical place profile
Murcia
A city located in southeastern Spain that belonged to the kingdom of Alfonso X. The city on the present location was an Islamic foundation under the name Madinat Mursiyah and was established in A.D. 825 by Abd ar-Rahman II, the emir of Córdoba.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:810796636
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:810796636
- Place type
- settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 37.992379, -1.130543
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A city located in southeastern Spain that belonged to the kingdom of Alfonso X. The city on the present location was an Islamic foundation under the name Madinat Mursiyah and was established in A.D. 825 by Abd ar-Rahman II, the emir of Córdoba.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Pleiades
Source and reuse
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Research path
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