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Marbella
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Marbella is a city of the south of Spain, belonging to the county of Málaga, in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, located beside Mediterranean, between Málaga and the Strait of Gibraltar and to the skirts of the Picks Sierra Blanca and Juanar.
In the municipal term they have been remains that you/they attest that it was already inhabited from the Paleolithic one and in the Neolithic one. In the Roman time, what today knows like Old Helmet, probably correspond with the city of Salduba.During the Islamic occupation, the Muslims built, in the century X, a castle and later on a fence that it protected the city. The current name can derive of the name that the Arabs gave him/her: Marbil-the that in turn, according to linguistic recent studies, it derives of an Iberian previous toponym. June 11 1485 were reconquered, and during the following centuries the city grew considerably, until arriving to the current time in that we meet with a city symbol of the tourist luxury.
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