Laujar de Andarax is a

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Almería province Almería (, , ) is a city and municipality of Spain, located in Andalusia. It is the capital of the province of the same name. It lies on southeastern Iberia on the Mediterranean Sea. Caliph Abd al-Rahman III founded the city in 955. The city gr ...

, in the autonomous community of

Andalusia Andalusia (, ; es, Andalucía ) is the southernmost Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in Peninsular Spain. It is the most populous and the second-largest autonomous community in the country. It is officially recognised as a ...

, Spain.

History

The people of Laujar de Andarax took part in the rebellion of the Alpujarras in 1500, triggered by the forced conversion of its Muslim population to Christianity. It was the scene of one of the most violent episodes during the suppression of the rebellion. Two hundred Muslims who had taken refuge in a local mosque were blown up with gunpowder under the order of Louis de Beaumont.

Location and geography

Its surface area is 92 km² and it has a density of 20.0 inhabitants / km². Its geographic coordinates are 36º 59 ', N, 2º 53', O. It is located in the

Alpujarra The Alpujarra (, Arabic: ''al-bussarat'') is a natural and historical region in Andalusia, Spain, on the south slopes of the Sierra Nevada and the adjacent valley. The average elevation is above sea level. It extends over two provinces, ...

of Almeria at an altitude of 918 meters and 69 kilometers from the provincial capital, Almería.

Demographics

With a more than 1500 inhabitants, the town has the largest population of that region.

Notable people

* : jurist, geographer and missionary to the

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; was born in Laujar in 1696. * Francisco Villaespesa Martín: modernist poet born in Laujar in 1877. * : historian born in Laujar in 1905.

References

Municipalities in the Province of Almería {{Almería-geo-stub