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Arcos de la Frontera , town (1990 pop. 27,722), Cádiz prov., S Spain, in Andalusia, on a rocky hill above the Guadalete River. A Gothic church and the palace of the duke of Arcos are at the summit. Wine and olive oil are produced. The Moors were driven out in 1250, and it became a Christian town near the border with Muslim Spain.

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Arcos de la Frontera, Andalusia/Spain Colonia Arcensium, Medina Arkosh ‘Arches of the Frontier’, a reference to the fact that it was on the border between Christian and Muslim Spain. A Roman colony, it was captured by the Moors from the Visigoths in 711 and the name Arabized. It was briefly an independent kingdom during the 11th century before being taken by Alfonso X (1221–84), King of Castile and León (1252–84), in 1264.

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