A crate of Spanish sweet-eating oranges on sale outside a fruit & veg shop in the historic city of Cordoba in Andalusia, southern Spain Originally fr
A crate of Spanish sweet-eating oranges on sale outside a fruit & veg shop in the historic city of Cordoba in Andalusia, southern Spain Originally from Southeast Asia, the Moors (Muslim people of North Africa) who immigrated to many areas of the Mediterranean from 711 AD, first introduced the orange to the Spanish Iberian Peninsula, which was known as Al-Andalus, (Andalusia) with large-scale cultivation starting in the 10th century. Among the other citrus fruits is the bitter or sour orange known as the Seville orange, which is grown on orange trees in city streets and orchards in much of southern Spain is not eatable and is used for marmalade. The fruit was first introduced to Sicily in Italy in the 9th century, but the sweet orange was relatively unknown until the late 15th -16th centuries when Italian and Portuguese merchants brought orange trees into the Mediterranean area. The sweet orange was soon adopted as an edible fruit. Among the wealthy, it was considered a luxury food and cultivated in private conservatories, called orangeries.
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Location: Cordoba, Andalusia, Southern Spain
Photo credit: © richard sowersby / Alamy / Afripics
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