{"id":37884,"count":1,"description":"Almer\u00eda (Spanish pronunciation:\u00a0[alme\u02c8\u027ei.a]) is a city in Andalusia, Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea. It is the capital of the province of the same name.\nTradition says that the name Almer\u00eda stems from the Arabic \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0631\u064a\u0629 Al-Mariyya: \"The Mirror\", comparing it to \"The Mirror of the Sea\". Nowadays, most accepted interpretation is that it derives from the arabic term \u0645\u0631\u0623\u0649 Al-Mara'\u0101, which means \"The Watchtower\".\nThe city was founded by Calipha Abd-ar-Rahman III of Cordova in 955 AD. It was to be a principal harbour in his extensive domain to strengthen his Mediterranean defences.\nIts Moorish castle, Alcazaba, is the second largest among the Muslim fortresses of Andalusia, after the Alhambra.\nIn this period, the port city of Almer\u00eda reached its historical peak. After the fragmentation of the Caliphate of C\u00f3rdoba, Almeria continued under powerful local Muslim Taifa emirs like Jairan, the first independent Emir of Almer\u00eda, Cartagena, and Almotacin, the poet emir. Both Cartagena and Almotacin...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/almeria\/","name":"Almeria","slug":"almeria","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/37884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=37884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}