Priego de Córdoba
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Priego de Córdoba is a town and municipality of southern Spain in the extreme southeastern portion of the province of Córdoba, near the headwater of the Guadajoz River, and on the northern slope of the Sierra de Priego. Pop. (2002) 22,558, in 1900 it was 16,902.
The district abounds in cattle (by 2007 there were almost no cattle in the area) and mules, horses and agricultural products, especially wine and olive oil and, according to local people, late potatoes. The local industries also included tanning and manufactures of esparto fabrics, rugs and cotton goods. The oldest church was built in the 13th century and subsequently restored; it has a fine chapel. There are ruins of an, originally Moorish, castle (currently (2006) under restoration) having been a fortified city of the Moors (with the Hispano-Arabic name Baguh) which was captured by the Christians under Ferdinand III in 1225, lost again in 1327, and finally retaken in 1340 by Alfonso XI.
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