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About Atarfe

Atarfe is a Spanish metropolis, that belongs to the province of Granada, in Andalusia. It is positioned in the north crucial a part of the Vega of Granada. It borders the municipalities of Moclin, Colomera, Albolote, Maracena, Granada, Santa Fe, and Pinos Puente. By this village run the Rivers Cubillas and Colomera. Its districts encompass Caparacena, Sierra Elvira, Hurpe and Cubillas.
Granada dictionary of toponimos, authored by Amador Diaz Garcia and Manuel Barrios Aguilera says that its name comes from the Arabic al- Taraf, which in Granada would be a-tarf dialect, that means strut, possibly related to its Castillejo and Colorao peaks. This view is likewise shared through the linguist Jesus Martinez del Castillo. Other views situate its beginning inside the artarf Arabic phrase this means that restriction, because it turned into the restriction in the area of the town of Elvira.
There appears to be, as some have concept, a Moorish dynasty Tarfe, a close relative of the kings of Granada. The first civilizations that settled into the soil date from the Neolithic, Iberian and Roman near them, underneath whose domination Iliberis metropolis turned into founded within the foothills of Sierra Elvira. During the Caliphate, the town was renamed Elvira, and carried out tremendous beauty as the capital of the Cora, one of the maximum crucial of al- Andalus.
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