Built by the Moors in a defensive position at the heart of the Caliphate of Cordoba, Cuenca is an unusually well-preserved ... it became a royal town and bishopric endowed with important buildings, ...

Cordoba, the sultry city of Andalusia, Spain, was under Moorish rule for more ... and its rich history—from the Romans to the Moors, Jews, and Christians who ruled it in the past.

Successively a Roman municipium, the capital of the Visigothic Kingdom, a fortress of the Emirate of Cordoba, an outpost of the Christian kingdoms fighting the Moors and, in the 16th century, the ...