Photograph by Juan Cole, July 27, 2010
The Torre del Oro in Seville, Spain, was built in the 1200s by the Almohad (Berber Muslim) dynasty to serve as a watchtower to guard the Gualdalquivir River (in Arabic, Wadi al-Kabir or ‘big river valley.’)
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For those interested in the Almohads, see: Fromherz, A. J. (2010) The Almohads: The Rise of an Islamic Empire (I B Tauris)
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don’t have time for more publishing services; but most of them use us to drive traffic and advertising dollars to them, rather than, as I would prefer :-) driving traffic to my blog site
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