Identifier: 01710943.5406.emory.edu
Title: Spain and Portugal: handbook for travellers
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipsic : K. Baedeker London : Dulau and Co. New York : C. Scribner's Sons
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Alhambra proper, the Palace of the MoorishKings, by a small glacis named the Plaza de los Aljibes. This, again,is adjoined on the S.E. by the Alhambra Alta, with the quarters of thecourtiers and officials. This threefold division is apparent in manyother establishments of the middle ages. Thus the commanderiesof the Teutonic Order in Prussia consisted of a strong Hochschlossor citadel, a Mittelschloss, occupied by the commander, and aVorburg, for the less important members of the post. The Moorsnamed the entire space within the circuit of the wall Medinat al-hamrd, or the Red Town, from the colour of the stone used in itsbuildings. The soil consists of a mixture, peculiar to the Alhambra,of clay and marl, permeated with oxide of iron. The early History of the Alhambra begins with Mohammed I.(1232-72), the first of the Nasride dynasty. The Albaicin was theroyal seat of the dynasty of the Zirites (comp. p. 380), who con-structed fortifications on the Alhambra hill, as we learn from the
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History. ALHAMBRA. 46. Route. 395 accounts of the numerous contests in the 10th, 11th, and 12th cen-turies. Mohammed I., however, selected the Alcazaba of the Al-hambra as his residence. He began his buildings on a modest scale,and was the originator of the motto Wald ghdliba ill Alldhta ala(there is no conqueror but the Most High God), which is so con-spicuous, along with the plus ultra1 of Charles V., among the inscrip-tions of the Alhambra. Mohammed II. (1272-1302) continued Msfathers work, and Mohammed HI. (1302-9) built the AlhambraMosque (p. 408). Abul-Waltd IsmaU (1309-25) was the first toerect a small palace beyond the Alcazaba. Yusuf I. (1333-54),however, who wielded more power and commanded greater resourcesthan his predecessors, tore the whole of this down with the exceptionof the Patio del Mexuar (p. 405), and began the building of thesuperb Palace of Comares or of the Court of the Myrtles, where theking sat in state, holding councils and receiving embassies. Hecompleted t

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