id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5141 Córdoba, Spain - Wikipedia .html text/html 10010 1475 76 It was a Roman settlement on the right bank of the Guadalquivir, taken over by the Visigoths, followed by the Muslim conquests in the eighth century and later becoming the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba. During these Muslim periods, Córdoba was transformed into a world leading center of education and learning, producing figures such as Averroes, Ibn Hazm, and Al-Zahrawi,[8][9] and by the 10th century it had grown to be the second-largest city in Europe.[10][11] Following the Christian conquest in 1236, it became part of the Crown of Castile. The second half of the 19th century saw the arrival of railway transport via the opening of the Seville–Córdoba line on 2 June 1859.[46] Córdoba became connected by railway to Jerez and Cádiz in 1861 and, in 1866, following the link with Manzanares, with Madrid.[47] The city was also eventually connected to Málaga and Belmez.[48] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5141.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5141.txt