Cordoba
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Cordoba
Coordinates: 37°53′N 4°46′W  /  37.883°N 4.767°W  / 37.883; -4.767
Country	Spain

Cordoba is a city in Andalusia , Spain . It is the capital of Cordoba province. It had a population of about 326,000 in 2017.

Cordoba was the capital of the Caliphate of Cordoba, an Islamic empire in the Middle Ages , when the city was the biggest in Europe, with 250,000 people.

Cordoba is 138 kilometers (86 miles) northeast of the city of Seville and is on the Guadalquivir river . Cordoba has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Csa in the Koppen climate classification ) with the hottest summers of all European cities. ^[1]

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The Romans occupied Cordoba in 206 B.C. The city was very important in the 900s CE as a famous center of Moorish art and culture . The Mezquita de Cordoba is the city's chief landmark . It was built as a mosque (Muslim house of worship) in the 700s and was made into a Roman Catholic cathedral in 1238. More than 1,000 pillars of stone including granite , onyx , marble and jasper support its arches .

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A soft, fine-grained leather called cordovan is made in Cordoba. Cordoba is the center of an agricultural region. The farms there produce grain , grapes , olives , and vegetables .

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