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On the Costa Blanca, Murcia was defended from the invasion of Archduke Charles by its bishop, with the help of local people; Játiva fought the succession of Philip so fiercely that when resistance was finally overcome in 1707, the town’s name was changed to San Felipe — the former name was not to be restored until the 19th century.
The Christian provinces gradually captured and annexed former bastions of Moorish rule: Ferdinand III conquered Murcia for Castile in 1242; Denia and Játiva fell to James the Conqueror of Aragon in 1244, though it was not until 1265 that he secured Cartagena.
Lying about 50 km (32 miles) east of Granada on the road to Murcia is Guadix, a particularly unusual city in that many of its inhabitants are troglodytes.
This nearly 480 km (300-mile) mountain range runs from the mountains of southern Portugal in the west to the border of the Provincia de Murcia in the east, effectively forming the border between Andalucía and most of the rest of Spain.