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Encyclopedia Britannica



LOJA (formerly written Loxa)

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 928 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LOB-LUP
LOJA (formerly written Loxa) , a town of southern Spain, in the province of
Granada
 , on the
Granada
 -Algeciras railway. Pop. (1900) 19,143. The narrow and irregular streets of Loja wind up the sides of a steep hill surmounted by a Moorish citadel; many of the older buildings, including a fine Moorish
bridge
 , were destroyed by an
earthquake
  in December 1884, although two churches of the early 16th century remained intact. An iron
bridge
  spans the river Genii, which flows past the town on the north, forcing a passage through the mountains which encircle the fertile and beautiful Vega of Granada. This passage would have afforded easy access to the territory still held by the Moors in the last half of the 15th century, had not Loja been strongly fortified; and the place was thus of
great
  military importance, ranking with the neighbouring town of Alhama as one of the keys of Granada. Its manufactures consist chiefly of coarse woollens silk,
paper
  and leather. Salt is obtained in the neighbourhood.
Loja, which, has sometimes been identified with the ancient Ilipula, or with the Lacibi (Lacibis) of Pliny and
Ptolemy
 , first clearly emerges in the Arab chronicles of the year 89o. It was taken by Ferdinand III. in 1226, but was soon afterwards abandoned, and was not finally recaptured until the 28th of May, 1486, when it surrendered to Ferdinand and
Isabella
  after a siege.


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