Madinat Ilbira
Interactive map of Madînat Ilbîra | |
| Location | Atarfe and Pinos Puente, Andalusia, Spain |
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| Coordinates | 37°14′17″N 3°42′29″W / 37.238°N 3.708°W |
Madinat Ilbira or Medina Elvira is an archaeological site in the Vega de Granada.
The site, rediscovered in the 19th century, lies across the municipalities of Atarfe and Pinos Puente at the feet of the southern slope of Sierra Elvira.[1] The city or Ilbira (or Elvira) was founded towards the 9th century CE, over previous sparse rural settlements (alquerías) in the area dating back to the 8th century.[2] There is no clear urban continuity with earlier phases of late Roman occupation of the territory.[2] It became the capital of the kūra of the same name.[3] Upon the onset of the early 11th-century fitna of al-Andalus, the incoming Zirid rulers moved their capital to the hitherto ḥiṣn of Garnata, which thereby became the city of Madinat Garnata (Granada), with the result of the depopulation of Ilbira.[2]
References
- ^ García-Contreras Ruiz, Guillermo; Ríos Jiménez, Juan Manuel; Alonso-Valladares, Moisés (2022). "Nuevos datos sobre Medina Elvira: estructuras en el centro urbano y una nueva necrópolis en la periferia de la ciudad emiral y califal de La Vega de Granada" [New Data about Medina Elvira: Structures in the Urban Center and a New Necropolis on the Outskirts of the Emiral and Caliphal City of La Vega de Granada] (PDF). Cuadernos de Prehistoria y Arqueología de la Universidad de Granada. 32. Granada: Universidad de Granada: 456. doi:10.30827/CPAG.v32i0.24348. ISSN 2174-8063.
- ^ a b c Mil años de Madinat Ilbira (PDF). 2013. pp. 14–15, 17–18. ISBN 978-84-96395-25-1.
- ^ Amezcua Pretel, José; Quesada Gómez, Juan José; Espinar Moreno, Manuel (1995). "Medina Elvira. Los primeros descubrimientos de Sierra Elvira. Materiales para el estudio de la arqueología granadina". En la España Medieval. 18. Madrid: Ediciones Complutense: 9.