2. After the Caliphate statement,
Abderramán III ordered to built a
big city, which were the Omeya
court seat. Córdoba turned into a
capital with two seats: the
“madina” and Medina Azahara,
where bureaucracy and empire
lived.
The buildings started in 936, post
by Maslama ben Abdllah.
3. The Caliphate The sloped was used for set
promoted an urban up the city in three terraces:
planning which as a the highest was from the real
result gave the “ family, the second was an
official zone, with the
Arrabales de administration buildings and
Poniente”. It layed the reception hall; at the last
our from Yebel al- terrace there was a big
Arus util Guadalquivir gardens, in front Abderramán
valley. hall.
The city was
Around this perfectly drew up:
mountain there at the entrance A wall surrounded
were located the there was a big the city, and
village, next to the angle which lead another isolates the
western wall. into the police real area.
department.
4. •Abderraman II hall or Reach hall: it was
utilized for the reception of important
embassies. It is decorated with reliefs on
marble and wood. Its columns were of pink
and blue marble.
8. It news creation meant a land
transformation, creating
quarries, communication
networks, vegetable patches
and farms. Also an ancient
roman aqueduct was restored,
and it was installed a distribute,
capture, store of water
9. The use of the
water wheel as
agricultural and
industrial motive
power is one of
the hallmarks of
the Arab
civilization in Al-
Andalus.
