Marble Hall Of Abd Al Rahman Iii Madinat Al Zahra

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Marble hall of abd al rahman iii madinat al zahra.

مدينة الزهراء romanized. Marble base from the abd al raḥmān iii s hall madīnat al zahrā inv. Madinat al zahra was declared a unesco world heratige site on 1st july 2018. The site was completely destroyed by the succession of civil wars which ravaged al andalus at the turn of the 11th century and madinat al zahra is now in ruins.

The shining city is the ruins of a vast fortified andalus palace city built by abd ar rahman iii 912 961 the first umayyad caliph of córdoba and located on the western outskirts of córdoba spain it was the de facto capital of al andalus as the heart of the administration and government was. A capital excavated at madinat al zahra is closely related to our example both in structure and decoration a style which has been associated with the late 950s and early 960s and with the construction of the salon of abd al rahman iii in 954 957 ibid pp 120 1. It is strategically located at the foot of sierra morena and far from the city of cordoba and its name means city of light history wanted the city not to reach the century of life and was devastated by the almohads years after being abandoned. Madinat al zahra a planned palatine city located a few miles west of cordoba was founded by abd al rahman iii in 936 shortly after the proclamation of the umayyad caliphate in al andalus.

It is a palace city designed to be the capital city of the caliphate of córdoba during abd al rahman iii s reign. Madinat al zahra is the city that the caliph abderramán iii ordered to be built to show the world the splendor of his caliphate. The immense effort taken to create this fantasy city was smashed to pieces after only seventy years too short a life for what was the first caliph s favourite. These capitals can be dated to the reign of abd al rahman iii 929 961 and that of his successor al hakam ii 961 976.

The city of madinat al zahra is located 6 kilometres to the west from the city of córdoba. According to popular belief abd al rahman iii after proclaiming himself caliph in 929 a d after eight. We are in the year 400 of the hegira 1010 ad of our era. Among the examples closest to this capital stylistically are those in the museo arqueologico provincial cordoba no.

151 57 the roman sculptures and reliefs from al zahra were discovered over an extended period of time starting from the first excavation campaigns undertaken by ricardo velazquez bosco in the early 20 th century to the most recent ones. It has a rectangular floor of 1500 meters by 750 meters with octagonal design. On the southern slopes of jebel al arus the bride s mountain the marble jasper and precious metals of the city of madinat al zahra gleam in the morning sun among silver leafed olive groves. Construction continued during the reign of his successor al hakam ii.