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Please find below some historic info about MIJAS It is believed that Mijas was founded by the ancient turdetanos from the mysterious tartessian civilisation.
The Romans made Mijas a fortress which dominated the coast from it's privileged position up on the side of the Sierra de Mijas mountain at an altitude of some 400 metres above sea level, the Mendoza Peak rises behind the
village to a height of approx 1,150 metres.
The walled enclosure was probably situated where the main parish church and the bull ring are today, all accounts agree that it was called Tamisa, later on the Moors named it Mixa, they made the walls higher and more solid
and extended the existing urban centre.
There are still a few remains of the fortress outer walls today.
In the 9th century when Omar Ibn Hafsun led his rebellion many of the people from Mijas joined forces with him because they were crippled by taxes, this was the case of many others in other places.
In 1487 the Christian army took the village, five years before the kingdom of Granada fell.
Mijas became a military headquarters during the fighting that followed.
Despite their defeat a lot of the Moorish population chose to stay, Christians came from the north to join them and repopulate the area.
Mijas was loyal to Queen Juana, who was known as the "Loca" or mad queen, during the popular uprising of the war of the "Comunidades" or communities and in 1512 in gratitude she gave Mijas the title of
"villa" together with an even more precious reward of being made exempt of paying sales tax.
Later on the crown granted Mijas another title of "very loyal".
The area of Mijas is mostly mountainous growing developments along the Costa del sol and on the gentler parts of the mountain slopes before they plunge into the sea.
The Pasadas and Ojen rivers cross this area, they join to form the River Fuengirola which flows into the sea almost on the limits between Fuengirola & Mijas the Municipality, one of the largest in the Province of Malaga,
with 147 square kms divided into three urban areas Mijas, Las Lagunas & La Cala.
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