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ALPUJARRAS, or ALPUXARRAS, THE (Moorish al Busherat, " the grass- See also: district of See also: southern See also: Spain, in the province of See also: Granada, consisting principally of valleys which descend at right angles from the crest of the Sierra See also: Nevada on the See also: north, to the Sierras Almijara, Contraviesa and Gador, which sever it from the Mediterranean See also: Sea, on the See also: south: These valleys are among the most beautiful and fertile in Spain
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They contain a See also: rich abundance of fruit trees, especially vines, oranges, lemons and See also: figs, and in some parts See also: present scenes of almost Alpine grandeur
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The inhabitants are the descendants of the Moors, who, after the See also: Spanish See also: conquest of Granada in 1492, vainly sought to preserve the last See also: relics of their independence in their See also: mountain fastnesses
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Many of the names of places in the
Alpujarras are of Moorish origin
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The district contains many villages of See also: i000 to 4000 inhabitants, the four largest being Lanjaron, with its ruined See also: castle and chalybeate See also: baths, Orgiba, Trevelez and Ugijar; all situated at a considerable See also: elevation
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Trevelez, the highest, stands 5332 ft. above the sea
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`ALQAMA See also: IBN `ABADA, generally known as `ALQAMA AL-FAIL, an Arabian poet of the tribe Tamim, who flourished in the second See also: half of the 6th century
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Of his See also: life we know practically nothing except that his chief poem concerns an incident in the See also: wars between the Lakhmids and the Ghassanids (see See also: ARABIA, See also: History)
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Even the date of this is doubtful, but it is generally referred to the See also: period after the See also: middle of the 6th century
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His poetic description of ostriches is said to have been famous among the See also: Arabs
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His diwan consists of three qasidas (elegies) and eleven fragments
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Asma' I considered three of the poems genuine
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The poems were edited by A . Socin with Latin See also: translation as Die Gedichte See also: des 'Alkama Alfahl (See also: Leipzig, 1867), and are contained in W
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Ahlwardt's The Diwans of the six See also: ancient Arabic Poets (Loud., 1870) ; cf
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W
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Ahlwardt's Bemerkungen ilber die Aechtheit der alten arabischen Gedichte (Greifswald, 1872), pp
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65-71 and 146-168
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