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Suel, la Fuengirola fenicia y romana

Fuengirola, Costa del Sol Occidental, Málaga

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Suel, la Fuengirola fenicia y romana

Historical milestone · Fuengirola, Costa del Sol Occidental, Málaga

Image of Fuengirola, not of the place itself.

Fuengirola appears cited as "Syalis" around 500 BC in texts by Hecataeus, and passed under Roman rule after the Second Punic War in the 3rd century BC under the name Suel. The castle known today as Sohail was built in the year 956 by order of the caliph Abd al-Rahman III.

hacia 500 a.C.; castillo en 956

Photo: Dickelbers (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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