Al-Andalus
Lūrqa لورقة
Today: Lorca, Spain
- Years
- 713–1244
A hilltop fortress town in the Tudmīr region, Lūrqa guarded the road between Murcia and Almería; Castile took it in 1244 and it stayed a frontier town facing Granada for two centuries.
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