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Origin of the Name 'Los Alcázares'

Los Alcázares, Mar Menor, Murcia

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Origin of the Name 'Los Alcázares'

Curiosity · Los Alcázares, Mar Menor, Murcia

The place name comes from the Arabic 'al-Qasr' (palace or fortress) and would refer to buildings raised by Ibn Mardanish, known as the Wolf King, reusing the remains of the old Roman villa. The name has been attached for more than eight hundred years to the oldest settlement on the Mar Menor.

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