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ALPUJARRAS, or ALPUXARRAS, THE (Moorish al Busherat, " the grass-land ")

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 755 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ALM-ANC
ALPUJARRAS, or ALPUXARRAS, THE (Moorish al Busherat, " the grass-land ") , a mountainous
district
  of southern Spain, in the province of
Granada
 , consisting principally of valleys which descend at right angles from the crest of the Sierra Nevada on the north, to the Sierras Almijara, Contraviesa and Gador, which sever it from the Mediterranean Sea, on the
south
 : These valleys are among the most beautiful and fertile in Spain. They contain a
rich
  abundance of fruit trees, especially vines, oranges, lemons and
figs
 , and in some parts present scenes of almost Alpine grandeur. The inhabitants are the descendants of the Moors, who, after the Spanish conquest of
Granada
  in 1492, vainly sought to preserve the last relics of their independence in their
mountain
  fastnesses. Many of the names of places in the
Alpujarras are of Moorish origin. The
district
  contains many villages of i000 to 4000 inhabitants, the four largest being Lanjaron, with its ruined castle and chalybeate baths, Orgiba, Trevelez and Ugijar; all situated at a considerable
elevation
 . Trevelez, the highest, stands 5332 ft. above the sea.
`ALQAMA IBN `ABADA, generally known as `ALQAMA AL-FAIL, an Arabian poet of the tribe Tamim, who flourished in the second half of the 6th century. Of his life we know practically nothing except that his
chief
  poem concerns an incident in the wars between the Lakhmids and the Ghassanids (see ARABIA, History). Even the date of this is doubtful, but it is generally referred to the period after the middle of the 6th century. His poetic description of ostriches is said to have been famous among the Arabs. His diwan consists of three qasidas (elegies) and eleven fragments. Asma' I considered three of the poems genuine.
The poems were edited by A. Socin with Latin
translation
  as Die Gedichte des 'Alkama Alfahl (
Leipzig
 , 1867), and are contained in W. Ahlwardt's The Diwans of the six ancient Arabic Poets (Loud., 1870) ; cf. W. Ahlwardt's Bemerkungen ilber die Aechtheit der alten arabischen Gedichte (Greifswald, 1872), pp. 65-71 and 146-168. (G. W. T.)


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