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ANTEQUERA (the ancient Anticaria)

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 93 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ANC-APO
ANTEQUERA (the ancient Anticaria) , a town of southern Spain, in the province of Malaga; on the Bobadilla-
Granada
  railway. Pop. (1900) 31,609. Antequera overlooks the fertile valley bounded on the S. by the Sierra de los Torcales, and on the N. by the river Guadalhorce. It occupies a commanding position, while the remains of its walls, and of a fine Moorish castle on a
rock
  that overhangs the town, show how admirably its natural defences were supplemented by art. Besides several interesting churches and palaces, it contains a fine arch, erected in 1595 in honour of Philip II., and partly constructed of in-scribed Roman masonry. In the eastern suburbs there is ,one of the largest grave-mounds in Spain, said to be of prehistoric date; and with subterranean chambers excavated to a depth of 65 ft. The Pena de los Enamorados, or " Lovers'
Peak
 ," is a conspicuous crag which owes its name to the romantic legend adapted by Robert Southey (17741843) in his Laila and
Manuel
 . Woollen fabrics are manufactured, and the
sugar
  industry established in 1890 employs several thousand hands; but the
majority
  of the inhabitants are occupied by the
trade
  in
grain
 , fruit, wine and oil.
Marble
  is quarried; and at El Torcal, 6 m.
south
 , there is a very curious labyrinth of red
marble
  rocks. Antequera was captured from the Moors in 1410, and became until 1492 one of the most important outposts of the Christian power in Spain.
See C. Fernandez, Historia de Antequera, desde su fondacion (Malaga, 1842).


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