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Alhambra

Granada's palace is al-Ḥamrāʾ, 'the red one', after its iron-red rammed-earth walls. Washington Irving's 1832 book made it a romantic byword, and its name ended up on London music halls and a Los Angeles suburb.

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890 CEAndalusian Arabic

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