Name of Andalusia
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The toponym al-Andalus (الأندلس) is first attested in inscriptions on coins minted by the Umayyad rulers of Iberia, from ca. 715.[1]
The etymology of the name has traditionally been derived from the name of the Vandals (who settled in Hispania in the 5th century). A number of proposals since the 1980s have contested this: Vallvé (1986) proposed derivation of the name from the Atlantic.[2] Halm (1989) derives the name from a reconstructed Gothic term *landahlauts.[3] Bossong (2002) suggests derivation from a pre-Roman substrate.[4] Corriente (2008) suggests a derivation from Coptic *emendelēs, "southwest".[5]
The Spanish form Andalucía was introduced in the 13th century.[6] The name was adopted in reference to those territories still under the Moorish rule at that time, and generally south of Castilla Nueva and Valencia, and corresponding with the former Roman province hitherto called Baetica in Latin sources. This was a Castilianization of Al-Andalusiya, the adjectival form of the Arabic word al-Andalus.