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The Moors chose Córdoba as their seat of government, and from the 8th to the very early 11th centuries, it ranked as one of the great cities of the world.
Its golden era was between the mid-8th and very early 11th centuries when it was the center of the great medieval Caliphate of Córdoba.
Some countries name their currency to honor people famous in their history: bolivar (Venezuela) for the liberator of South America, Simón Bolívar; sucre (Ecuador) for Antonio José de Sucre, chief lieutenant of Bolívar and liberator of what is now Ecuador at the battle of Pichincha in 1822 near Quito; colón (Costa Rica, El Salvador) for Christopher Columbus; balboa (Panama) for Vasco Núñez de Balboa, discoverer of the Pacific Ocean; lempira (Honduras) for the 16th-century Indian chief who is a national symbol of liberty and valor for resisting the Spanish advance; and córdoba (Nicaragua) for Francisco Hernández de Cór doba, first acting governor.
Eight kilometers (5 miles) west of Córdoba lies the ruins of the intriguing city cum palace of Medina Azahara.
These alone make it worth a visit, and the two gates that linked the old card maxim (Roman road), Displays (Sevilla) and Cordoba (Córdoba), shouldn’t be missed.