See also:

• ALPUJARRAS, or ALPUXARRAS, THE (Moorish al Busherat, " the grass-land ")

ALPUJARRAS, or ALPUXARRAS, THE (Moorish al Busherat, " the grass-See also:

• LAND

land ")  , a mountainous See also:

• DISTRICT

district of See also:

• SOUTHERN

southern See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain, in the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• GRANADA
• GRANADA, LUIS DE (1504-1588)

Granada, consisting principally of valleys which descend at right angles from the See also:

• CREST
• CREST (Lat. crista, a plume or tuft)

crest of the Sierra See also:

• NEVADA
• NEVADA (a Spanish word meaning " snow-clad " or " snowy land," originally applied to a snow-capped mountain range on the Pacific slope)

Nevada on the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north, to the Sierras Almijara, Contraviesa and Gador, which sever it from the Mediterranean See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

Sea, on the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south: These valleys are among the most beautiful and fertile in Spain . They contain a See also:

• RICH, BARNABE (c. 1540-1617)
• RICH, CLAUDIUS JAMES (1787-1821)
• RICH, JOHN (1692-1761)
• RICH, PENELOPE, LADY (c. 1562–1607)
• RICH, RICHARD, 1ST BARON RICH (1490?-1567)

rich abundance of See also:

• FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit trees, especially vines, oranges, lemons and See also:

• FIGS

figs, and in some parts See also:

• PRESENT

present scenes of almost Alpine grandeur . The inhabitants are the descendants of the See also:

• MOORS (Lat. Mauri; Gr. Mavpot, dark men)
• MOORS, KABYLES, MZABITES

Moors, who, after the See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish See also:

• CONQUEST

conquest of Granada in 1492, vainly sought to preserve the last See also:

• RELICS (Lat, reliquiae, the equivalent of the English " remains " in the sense of a dead body)

relics of their See also:

• INDEPENDENCE
• INDEPENDENCE, DECLARATION OF
• INDEPENDENCE, WAR OF

independence in their See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

mountain fastnesses . Many of the names of places in the See also:

• ALPUJARRAS, or ALPUXARRAS, THE (Moorish al Busherat, " the grass-land ")

Alpujarras are of Moorish origin . The district contains many villages of See also:

• I000

i000 to 4000 inhabitants, the four largest being Lanjaron, with its ruined See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

castle and chalybeate See also:

• BATHS

baths, Orgiba, Trevelez and Ugijar; all situated at a considerable See also:

• ELEVATION

elevation . Trevelez, the highest, stands 5332 ft. above the sea . `ALQAMA See also:

• IBN

IBN `ABADA, generally known as `ALQAMA AL-FAIL, an Arabian poet of the tribe Tamim, who flourished in the second See also:

• HALF

half of the 6th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . Of his See also:

• LIFE

life we know practically nothing except that his See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief poem concerns an incident in the See also:

• WARS

wars between the Lakhmids and the Ghassanids (see See also:

• ARABIA

ARABIA, See also:

• HISTORY

History) . Even the date of this is doubtful, but it is generally referred to the See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period after the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle of the 6th century . His poetic description of ostriches is said to have been famous among the See also:

• ARABS

Arabs . His diwan consists of three qasidas (elegies) and eleven fragments . Asma' I considered three of the poems genuine .

The poems were edited by A . Socin with Latin See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation as See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Gedichte See also:

• DES

des 'Alkama Alfahl (See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 1867), and are contained in W . Ahlwardt's The Diwans of the six See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient Arabic Poets (Loud., 1870) ; cf . W . Ahlwardt's Bemerkungen ilber die Aechtheit der See also:

• ALTEN, SIR CHARLES [Karl] (1764–1840)

alten arabischen Gedichte (Greifswald, 1872), pp . 65-71 and 146-168 . (G . W .