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Formerly a center of Moorish civilization
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andalusia
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
former name of southern Spain, from Spanish, from Arabic al Andalus , name for the entire peninsula, from Late Latin *Vandalicia "the country of the Vandals," in reference to one of the Germanic tribes that overran the Western Empire 3c.-4c. and for a time ...
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Andalusia is the name of Southern American author Flannery O'Connor 's rural Georgia estate. The estate is located in Baldwin County, Georgia , approximately northwest of Milledgeville . It comprises , including the plantation house where O'Connor wrote ...
Gazetteer
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Population (2000): 8794 Housing Units (2000): 4279 Land area (2000): 18.874470 sq. miles (48.884652 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.093783 sq. miles (0.242897 sq. km) Total area (2000): 18.968253 sq. miles (49.127549 sq. km) FIPS code: 01708 Located within: ...
Usage examples of andalusia.
His face and movements possessed a suggestion of energy which seemed out of place here in the sleepy South, and stamped him as a native not of dreamy Andalusia, but of La Mancha perhaps, where the wit of Spain is concentrated, or of fiery Catalonia, where discontent and unrest are in the very atmosphere of the brown hills.
There are few older towns in Andalusia than Ronda, and scarce anywhere the habits of the Moors are so closely followed.
Coming as she did from Andalusia, she was accustomed to an even greater heat, and knew how to avoid the discomfort of it.
There is a river between this and Galvez - a little stream such as we have in Andalusia - so small that there is only a ford and no bridge.
In Andalusia they say that a contrabandist can conceal himself behind half a brick.
QUEEN Dearest, we must away to Andalusia, Thence to America when time shall serve.
It is impossible to travel about Andalusia and not imbibe a kind feeling for those Moors.
The temperature of a summer midnight in Andalusia is perfectly ethereal.
They would understand such a thing, just as any man of Estramadura or Galicia or Andalusia would understand such a thing, Christian though he be.
Feathered clouds of birds descended from skies of blue and fleecy-white to perch upon the budding branches of the ancient, huge-boled trees, chirping and trilling avian tales of their long, winter sojourns in Languedoc, Andalusia and Africa.
Andy Andalusia was catching for the regulars when Boley turned up on the field.
The confines of Grenada and Andalusia correspond with those of ancient Baetica.
Lusitania had a Viriatus, Rome a Caesar, Carthage a Hannibal, Greece an Alexander, Castile a Count Fernan Gonzalez, Valencia a Cid, Andalusia a Gonzalo Fernandez, Estremadura a Diego Garcia de Paredes, Jerez a Garci Perez de Vargas, Toledo a Garcilaso, Seville a Don Manuel de Leon, to read of whose valiant deeds will entertain and instruct the loftiest minds and fill them with delight and wonder.
On the roads were many carriages, of lovely design and made of some glittering material, carrying men and women of remarkable good looks and drawn by big red sheep, which were faster than the best horses of Andalusia, Tetuan or Mequinez.