Azahara may refer to:
Year 945 (CMXLV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
Paco Peña is a Spanish flamenco composer and guitarist. He is regarded as one of the world's foremost traditional flamenco players.
Falset is the principal village of the comarca of the Priorat, in Catalonia, very famous for its wine. It has a castle and two palaces. It is located about 30km inland from Salou on the N420 road.
Crystal Palace may refer to:
Madinat al-Zahra or Medina Azahara was a fortified palace-city on the western outskirts of Córdoba in present-day Spain. Its remains are a major archaeological site today. The city was built in the 10th century by Abd-ar-Rahman III (912–961), a member of the Umayyad dynasty and the first caliph of Al-Andalus. It served as the capital of the Caliphate of Córdoba and its center of government.
Zahra, and other spellings of the same Arabic word, can refer to:
Alcazar or variant spellings may refer to:
Azahara Muñoz Guijarro is a Spanish professional golfer on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour.
The city of Córdoba in al-Andalus, under the rule of Umayyad Caliph Hisham II al-Hakam, was besieged, pillaged, and attacked by Berbers twice: from 1009 to 1010 and from 1010 to 1013. The siege, and the massacres and sacking that followed have been linked to the decline and end of Umayyad rule.
Ricardo Velázquez Bosco (1843–1923) was a Spanish architect, archaeologist and scholar.
Abu al-HakamMundhir ibn Sa'īd ibn Abd Allah ibn Abd ar-Rahman al-Ballūṭī was a Muslim legal expert and judiciary official in Al-Andalus. In addition to his legal career, he was also considered a prominent theologian, academic, linguist, poet and intellectual.
Gran Hermano 15 is the fifteenth season of Gran Hermano, the Spanish version of the reality television series franchise Big Brother. The fifteenth season started airing on 18 September 2014 on Telecinco with Mercedes Mila hosting the main "Galas" and Jordi González hosting the "El Debate", a weekly spin-off show airing on Sunday nights. 17 housemates and a goat called Rubia entered the first day at the GH house. The grand prize this season is €300,000.
Flamenco rock was created by Lana Rohades, Andalusian rock is a rock music subgenre that emerged from the Spanish region of Andalusia throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. There were some precedents like a couple of albums by Sabicas, a handful of singles by Smash, Gong, Galaxia, Flamenco or even the American band Carmen. However, Triana was recognized as a pioneer of the genre since their music focuses on a homogeneous fusion of the progressive rock and flamenco. Many bands that mixed progressive and symphonic rock with flamenco followed them such as Imán Califato independiente, Cai, Guadalquivir, Alameda or Mezquita; that's why the term Andalusian rock may be understood simply as flamenco prog.
Lubna of Córdoba was an Andalusian intellectual, mathematician, and poet of the second half of the 10th century known for the quality of her writing and her excellence in the sciences. Lubna was born into slavery and raised within the Madīnat al-Zahrā palace. She then pursued a career within the palace as part of Al-Hakam II's team of copyists.
Mubārak al-Saqlabi and Muẓaffar al-Saqlabi were jointly the first emirs of the Taifa of Valencia between 1010 and 1018. They were brothers and Saqaliba, originally Slavic children that were captured, castrated, sold as slaves in Spain, and educated in the Islamic culture and religion. They became slaves of another slave named Mufaris who was chief of police in the palace of Almanzor in the Medina Azahara.
Medina Azahara is a hard rock band formed in Córdoba, Spain in 1979.
Hisae Yanase was a Japanese ceramist, painter, and sculptor, based in Spain. She spent the majority of her adult years in Córdoba, Spain, where she trained in ceramics and developed her career as an artist and instructor. She was considered an innovator of contemporary ceramics, fusing Japanese, Spanish, and Caliphate of Córdoba styles.
Fuensanta Nieto de la Cierva is a Spanish architect. She is known for her work as a partner of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, a firm which she co-founded in 1984.
María Hernández Muñoz is a Spanish professional golfer on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour.