Costa del Sol Towns
Its capital and largest city is Velez-Malaga and
residents of this region are called Axarquicos.
The Axarquia is limited on the north by the Shire of Alhama, and to the east by
the Costa Tropical region. It is met in the south by the Mediterranean
Sea, and in the west and northwest by Malaga Andalusia and the
counties of Nororma Antequeran respectively.
The Royal
Academy in its spelling
of the Spanish Language in the 1999 dictionary edition, explains: "In the Middle
Ages, was also x palatal fricative phoneme of deaf dixo that by the sixteenth
century to evolve to ensure fricative phoneme Deaf said.” Some remnants of this script interpretation
are present in names such as Mexico,
Oaxaca, Texas
and its derivatives (Mexican, Oaxacan, Texas
...), and some surnames as Ximenez or Mexia. The pronunciation of ‘x’ in such and
other words, ensures the fricative is deaf, that is, it sounds like ‘j’;
therefore constitutes an error orthologous in articulates as ‘ks’
Axarquia (pronounced La Ajarquia or by mistake,
The Asharquia) is a county located in the easternmost part of the province of Malaga
sharing a border with the province of Granada.
The region stretches along the coast; therefore both the interior and coastal
municipalities are of the Costa del Sol Oriental.
As far as regional media trends show, the most
popular, according to the EGM, are Axarquia 24 Television, Cadena and Energy
radio stations, and The Forward weekly newspaper. Other media competitors are
TV VTV-Axarquia, the newspaper La Axarquia, and the new independent medium -
Torre del Mar TV.
The Dictionary of theSpanish Royal
Academy defines the word
‘jarquia’ as "a district or territory situated east of a great city and
dependent on it," and was originally pronounced ‘sarqiyya’ coming from the
Arabic, meaning east. In theprovince
ofMalaga is this region called La
Ajarquia, with its Arabic name meaning the mountains ofMalaga, to the north and east of the capital.
In many texts the name is written ‘The Axarquia’, with an 'x', which is also
correct, but can mislead the reader to give the ‘ks’ sound and the name is then
erroneously and incorrectly pronounced ‘Aksarquia’.
Malaga has always been pronounced "Asharquia"
(IPA: [ɑʃɑrk'ɪɑ]).
Peak La Maroma is the highest point of the region, crossing the rivers Velez,
Torrox, Algarrobo, Iznate Seco, Huit, Higueron, Chillar, Almachar, de la Cueva,
Benamargosa, Sabar, Alcaucin, Bermuza, Rubite, Maro, all situated in the Andalusian
Mediterranean Basin. Water is provided via the Vinuela reservoir and the
natural park of Sierra Tejeda, Alhama and Amijara and the
Paraje Natural de Maro cliffs are also located in this region.
Towns
The Diputacion de Malaga, gives the region the name "Axarquia - Costa del Sol" and this is because it covers exactly
the same municipalities within the county displaying the same definition and
cohesion among its peoples, who have since long ago, shared a common culture
and customs.
The Axarquia comprises 31 municipalities in total.
History
The region was conquered after the battles of Axarquia in 1487, defeating the
Zalia castles (near Zafarraya and Alcaucin, Bentomiz in Arenas and La Fortaleza
de Velez).
The Axarco
The original currency is an Axarco. Antonio Gamez created the currency in 1988
with the intention of providing cohesion and unity between all the regions. It
is still accepted in some of them, although it has fallen into disuse over time.
Most of the copies of notes and coins have fallen into the hands of collectors,
and are moving out of circulation.
A spokesman for GIPMTM (Grupo Independiente Pro-Municipality of Torre del Mar),
Manuel Rincon, proposed in June 2007, establishing a "Board of
Axarco" in the municipality of Velez-Malaga, to be responsible for the
return of the axarco to promote tourism in the region.
Axarquicos Honor
Purification Garcia Ruiz was written by a documentary archivist. The vocation
of this book was to ensure that it was in Lagos
with the lucky Cyclopean task of "saving the historic wreck that was"
to ensure the Municipal Archives. In their hands is the care and custody of
documentation. Historical researchers, are the authors of The Purification,
Marquesado Beniel and Mayorazgo, winner of the Velez-Malaga (Historical
Research Prize, 1994) and La Taha de Frigiliana.
His articles have given him a reputation outside our
borders, especially "Arias de Enriquez: a character of Goya", which
gives the correct date in the table wrongly dated. It also has other works in
partnership such as "Algarrobo History: Ancient and Medieval." In his
latest publication, “The Axarquia, Land of Sugar” (Asukaria Mediterranean,
2000) we learn about the important tradition of cultivating sugarcane in the
region, demonstrating that the sugar, Our Lady of Mount Caramel, was the first
industrial sugar factory ever built in Spain. It is "Ajarquica of
Honor" (Riogordo 96).
