Kura (al-Andalus)

Approximate map of the Kūra of the Emirate of Córdoba in 929.
Territorial organization of the Caliphate of Cordoba around the year 1000.

The Kūra was one of the territorial demarcations into which al-Andalus,[1] the ancient Islamic Iberian Peninsula, was divided during the Emirate and Caliphate of Córdoba. It coexisted with another territorial demarcation called March ("thagr"), which overlapped the Kūra in the areas bordering the Christian kingdoms. Both underpinned the al-Andalus territorial organization during the aforementioned periods.

According to the RAE dictionary, the word Kūra (Arabic: كورة, cora) comes from the Greek χῶρα, with the meaning of territory.

  1. ^ García Baquero, Gregorio (1990). Geografía Física y Humana de Andalucía: La población, factores del pasado (in Spanish). Madrid: Síntesis. p. 125. ISBN 84-7738-092-9.