Madinat al-Zahra
Madinat al-Zahra or Medina Azahara was a fortified palace-city on the western outskirts of Córdoba in present-day Spain. Its remains are a major archaeological site today.
- Ruin
- …lies at an elevation of 190 metres (623 feet)
- Description: archeological site of Moorish palace in Spain
- Also known as“Caliphate City of Medina Azaharaa”“Delimitación de Madinat al-Zahra”“Medina Azahàra”“Medina Azzahra”“Medina-Zahra”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include La Casa de Yafar and El Gran Pórtico.
La Casa de Yafar
Archaeological site
Sombradeparra, Public domain.
La Casa de Yafar is an archaeological site.
El Gran Pórtico
Archaeological site
El Gran Pórtico is an archaeological site, which is situated 200 metres northeast of Madinat al-Zahra.
Madīnat al-Zahrā mosque
Archaeological site
Madīnat al-Zahrā mosque is an archaeological site, which is situated 240 metres east of Madinat al-Zahra.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Barriada Las Moreras and San Basilio.
Barriada Las Moreras
Neighborhood
Barriada Las Moreras is a neighborhood, which is situated 7 km east of Madinat al-Zahra.
San Basilio
Neighborhood
San Basilio is one of the neighbourhoods in the Centro district of Córdoba, Spain. San Basilio is situated 7 km east of Madinat al-Zahra.
Encinarejo
Locality
Encinarejo is a locality, which is situated 8 km southwest of Madinat al-Zahra.
Madinat al-Zahra
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Latitude
37.88607° or 37° 53′ 10″ north
Longitude
-4.86852° or 4° 52′ 7″ west
Open location code
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Madinat al-Zahra” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الزهراء”
- Arabic: “المدينة الزاهرة”
- Arabic: “المدينه الزاهره”
- Arabic: “قصر الزهراء”
- Arabic: “مدينة الزهراء”
- Armenian: “Մեդինա Ասաարա”
- Asturian: “Medina Azahara”
- Azerbaijani: “Mədinə əz-Zəhra”
- Basque: “Medina Azahara”
- Catalan: “Madina al-Zahira”
- Catalan: “Madinat al-Zahra”
- Catalan: “Madínat az-Zahrà”
- Catalan: “Medina al-Zahara”
- Catalan: “Medina al-Zahra”
- Catalan: “Medina Azahara”
- Catalan: “Medina Azahira”
- Chinese: “扎赫拉古城”
- Chinese: “阿爾扎哈拉古城”
- Croatian: “Medina Azahara”
- Czech: “Madinat al-Zahra”
- Czech: “Medina Azahara”
- Dutch: “Medina Azahara”
- Finnish: “Madinat al-Zahra”
- Finnish: “Medina Azahara”
- French: “Madinat Al-Zahra”
- French: “Madinat Azahra”
- French: “Medina Azahara”
- French: “Medina zahara”
- Galician: “Madinat Al-Zahra”
- Galician: “Madīnat al-Zahrā”
- Galician: “Medina Azahara”
- Georgian: “მედინა-ასაჰარა”
- German: “Kalifatsstadt Madīnat az-zahrāʾ”
- German: “Madinat al-Zahra”
- German: “Madinat Al-Zahra”
- German: “Madinat az-zahra‘”
- German: “Madinat az-zahra’”
- German: “Madīnat az-zahrāʾ”
- German: “Medina Azahara”
- Hebrew: “מדינה אזאהרה”
- Hindi: “मदीना अज़हरा”
- Hungarian: “Medina Azahara”
- Italian: “Madinat al-Zahra‘”
- Italian: “Madinat al-Zahra’”
- Italian: “Madinat al-Zahra”
- Italian: “Medina Azahara”
- Japanese: “ザフラー宮殿”
- Korean: “마디낫 알 자흐라”
- Latvian: “Medina Asaara”
- Lithuanian: “Medina Azahara”
- Malayalam: “മദീന അൽ സഹ്റ”
- Malayalam: “മദീന അസഹാര”
- Maltese: “Madinat Al-Zahra”
- Maltese: “Medina Azahara”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Madinat al-Zahra”
- Panjabi: “ਮਦੀਨਾ ਅਜ਼ਾਹਰਾ”
- Persian: “مدینة الزهراء”
- Polish: “Madinat al-Zahra”
- Polish: “Medina Azahara”
- Portuguese: “Madinat al-Zahr - Medina Al-Azhara”
- Portuguese: “Madinat al-Zahra”
- Portuguese: “Medina Azahara”
- Portuguese: “Medina Azara”
- Portuguese: “Medina Azhara”
- Russian: “Мадина аз-захра”
- Russian: “Медина Ас-Сахара”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kalifatski grad Medina Azahara”
- Slovenian: “Medina Azahara”
- Spanish: “Acueducto de Valpuentes en la sierra”
- Spanish: “Camino de los Nogales”
- Spanish: “Ciudad Califal de Medina Azahara”
- Spanish: “Conjunto Arqueológico Madinat al-Zahra”
- Spanish: “Delimitación de Madinat al-Zahra”
- Spanish: “Entorno de Protección de las Ruinas de Madinat-al-zahra”
- Spanish: “lmunia de los Turruñuelos”
- Spanish: “Madinat al Zahra”
- Spanish: “Madinat Al-Zahara o Medina Azahara”
- Spanish: “Madinat al-Zahra”
- Spanish: “Madinat Al-Zahra”
- Spanish: “Medina Azahara”
- Spanish: “Medinat al Zahra”
- Spanish: “Medinat al-Zahra”
- Spanish: “Palacio de Medina Azahara”
- Spanish: “Ruinas de Córdoba la Vieja”
- Spanish: “Ruinas del Palacio de Alamiriya”
- Spanish: “Yacimiento Arqueológico de Medina Azahara”
- Swedish: “Medina Azahara”
- Tamil: “மதினத் அல் ஜஹ்ரா”
- Turkish: “Medinetü’z-Zehra Sarayı”
- Ukrainian: “Медіна аз-захра”
- Urdu: “مدینہ الزہراء”
- Urdu: “مدینۃ الزھراء”
- Uzbek: “Madinat az-Zahra”
- Uzbek: “Madinat azzahra saroy majmuasi”
- Uzbek: “Madinat Azzahra Saroy Majmuasi”
- Vietnamese: “Medina Azahara”
- Western Panjabi: “مدينه الزهرا”
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