Gibralfaro
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Mount Gibralfaro is a hill located in Málaga in the south of Spain. It is a 130 m high foothill of the Montes de Málaga, part of the Cordillera Penibética.
Mount Gibralfaro with the Castle on top
Restored double walled coracha terrestre to Castle of Gibralfaro from Alcazaba
Málaga from the ramparts of Gibralfaro, looking towards the Alcazaba (visible below)
Panoramic Málaga from Gibralfaro
Phoenicia
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The Phoenicians were an ancient Semitic-speaking people who inhabited city-states in Canaan along the Levantine coast of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily in present-day Lebanon. Their maritime civ
Gibralfaro
…city and the Mediterranean Sea, and connected by a walled corridor to the Alcazaba of Málaga. Gibralfaro has been the site of fortifications since the Phoenician foundation of Málaga city, circa 770 BC. The location was fortified by Caliph Abd-al-Rahman III in 929 CE. At the beginning of the 14th century, Yusuf…
Approximate extent of Phoenician settlements and trade routes c. 800 BC.
Two bronze fragments from an Assyrian palace gate depicting the collection of tribute from the Phoenician cities of Tyre and Sidon (859–824 BC). British Museum.
Phoenicians build pontoon bridges for Xerxes I of Persia during the second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC (1915 drawing by A. C. Weatherstone).
Achaemenid-era coin of Abdashtart I of Sidon, who is seen at the back of the chariot, behind the Persian King