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 84 Moorish Architecture. interesting as containing specimens of the different styles adopted in Spain from the first arrival of the Moors until Moorish architecture reached its fullest development in the Alhambra. After he was driven from Seville (1248), Mahomed ben Alhamar commenced building the citadel of the Alhambra, Fig. 41#. — Moorish Pavilion near Granada. upon a rocky, height overlooking the city of Granada. The other buildings connected with this citadel appear to have r been added gradually, and not to have been completed until the end of the fourteenth century. The portions of the original Alhambra, which are still standing,