Granada, Nicaragua
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Granada is a ceety in wastern Nicaragua (1,040 km²), an the caipital o the Granada Depairtment. Wi an estimatit population o 110,326 (2003), it is Nicaragua's fowert maist muckle ceety. Granada is historically ane o Nicaragua's maist important ceeties baith economically an politically. It hes a rich colonial heritage, seen in its airchitectur an layout.
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Foondit in 1524 bi Francisco Hernández de Córdoba an ane o the first European ceeties in mainland Americas. Unlik ither ceeties who claim the same, the ceety o Granada wis no anerlie the dounset o the conquest, but a ceety registered in offeecial records o the Croun o Aragon an the Kinrick o Castile in Spain an aw.
Granada is kent as La Gran Sultana an aw, bi its Moorish an Andalusian appearance, unlik its sister ceety o León an historical rival, which haes Castilian trends, baith o the Baroque time.