All Granada [antikvár]

FROM TURDULAN ILIVERIR TO MOSLEM GRANADA It appears that the lands of Granada had contact with people of an advanced civilisation from prehistoric times. The earliest historical records however relate to the Turdulos who were one of the most civilised of the Iberian tribes and eventually minted coins on which Granada appears under the name of Ilive-rir. Later came the Phoenicians, Greeks and Carthaginians. The latter estabhshed themselves nearby in an important aboriginal settlement, and this has recently been confirmed by the discovery of an Iberian sculpture, the Dama de Baza, in the province of Granada. The arrival of the Romans in the fertile plains around Granada-marked an important period in history, and a Roman Town — later to become the city of the Alham-bra —was established. It was there that Saint Cecilio founded an Episcopal See in the year 62, and a little more than two centuries later the first Catholic Council in the whole of the Iberian Peninsula was set up. Ancient Il/beris —the Roman name for Iliverir — grew in importance under the Visigothic Monarchy and reached its highest point with the arrival of the Arabs. A vkw of Granada, wiih the walls in the foreground and the Alhamhra in the centre. "The Surrender of Granada ", the famous picture hy Pradilla. A study ofthe old Alcai^ha of Granada.