Saturday, January 31, 2009

Ladies With Stockings

Sierra Nevada Sierra Nevada from San Miguel Alto (II)






Magnificent views of the Sierra Nevada from the Mirador de San Miguel Alto and the City of Granada.

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Milena Velba By Mature

Sierra Nevada from San Miguel High (I) Taking of Granada


Friday, January 2, 2009

Pregnancy Test Little Blue Dots





Making Granada is, in fact, much more than the siege and capture of the city is a real war that has lasted eleven years (1482-1492), which starts with the capture of the place of two determinants Alhama.Los Christian victory jurisdiction, on the one hand, the economic and military strength of the Christian kingdoms Peninsula, highlighted by the union of the crowns of Castile and Aragon in the persons of their monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella, on the other hand, the increasing weakness of the kingdom of Granada constantly involved in intrigues that prevented stability in the power of successive 1,483 emires.En Emir Muley Hassan is deposed, trying in vain to regain the city of Alhama, in a conspiracy hatched by his wife Fatima Abencerraje to enthrone using your Hujo Muhammad XII (also known as Boabdil "boy"). Muley Hassan takes refuge with his followers in the castle with Mondújar his brother and deputy El Zagal and, with the support of the powerful falmilia of Venegas, overcomes Boabdil troops in the battle of the Axarquia, 1483. This will start a civil war in Granada to win Boabdil getting through support by the Catholic Kings in exchange of paying vasallaje.Muerto Muley Hassan, Boabdil and El Zagal (nephew and uncle) agree to divide the kingdom into halves, the eastern for Boabdil and West to El Zagal, which further weakens their chances of survival. Soon the Catholic Kings gain control of western made in 1485 Ronda and Malaga and other cities in the next three years, thanks to the rendition of El Zagal that agrees to provide the territories, kowtow to the Catholic Monarchs and support for the conquest of Granada in exchange for keeping land and servidumbres.Por hand, Boabdil was captured in the defense of the city of Loja but was released on the condition of paying the city of Granada, a pact that obviously failed. Therefore, the Catholic Monarchs set against the capital Camp Santa Fe in 1489, which, after a devastating fire was 1.491.El city become the capital constant siege and subsequent isolation and popular discontent with the miseries of the siege, the hunger and disease, Boabdil force to surrender. Accountability is reflected in the historic document of Capitulation which also involves the surrender and capture of Granada, the end of the last Muslim kingdom on the peninsula and eight centuries of Muslim occupation. On the Christian side, the taking of Granada means to progress towards the south which required opening up new horizons (coincidentally was around a certain Christopher Columbus).