Because of the size and geography of the Iberian Peninsula, there has always been many different'pockets'of population. These pockets where extended around the country in a very decentralized and disperse manner.  Malaga has been populated as a coastal port city since the age of the Phoenicians, through Visigoth, Roman and Muslim times.  A city of many celebrities and capital of it's own province, best known for many as 'Costa del Sol'. With sunlight and temperatures rarely below 20ºC during the daytime, it has been chosen as one of Spain's oldest flagstones for seaside vacations and is also an important second residency area for many worldwide personalities.

Focusing back into the history of this city, and specifically it's Islamic period, we will find Malaga is handed over to Muslim mercenary commanders entering along with Tariq Bin Ziyad early on after 711. This was a time when Iberia was still not declared one nation and was governed as (about) seventy different, independent kingdoms. Later on, Málaga was also to become remembered as forming part of Granada's vast kingdom under Berber Muslim rule, during the time of the Almorabids. The Kingdom of Granada which Malaga was part of, is known as the last Muslim Kingdom of Al-Andalus. Spain was specifically declared as a union of Catholic Kingdoms with the goal of making the Iberian Peninsula an exclusively Catholic land.