Loja

Loja formerly Loxa, is a town in southern Spain, located on the western limit of the province of Granada. It is surrounded by the so-known as Sierra de Loja, of which the highest top, Sierra Gorda, stands 1,671 metres above sea-degree. Loja has every so often been identified with the historic Ilipula, or with the Lacibi of Pliny and Ptolemy. It is unknown when Loja changed into first captured by using the Moors; maximum probable this came about in the 8th century. It first simply emerges inside the Arab chronicles of the year 890.

It become taken through Ferdinand III in 1226, but become quickly afterwards abandoned. Its Moorish name, Medina Lawsa, turned into changed to Lauxa whilst it become captured via the Christians in 1486, throughout the Reconquista. Isabella I of Castile known as it the "flower among thorns". Isabella I reigned as Queen of Castile from 1474 until her demise. Her marriage to Ferdinand II of Aragon have become the basis for the political unification of Spain below their grandson, Charles I.