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Pre-Romanesque churches in the Iberian Peninsula include a number of constructions from the fourth-fifth to the eleventh century when the first Romanesque churches appeared in the north of Spain. This period of time coincided with the Muslim invasion of the Peninsula. An important number of churches and mosques were built with prescriptions for the orientation, which possibly included astronomical observations. Investigations show that both groups of monuments reacted by avoiding the areas of theoretical influence of the other religion while trying to obey their own orientation rules.
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This work is partially financed under the framework of the projects P310793 “Arqueoastronomía” of the IAC and AYA2011-26759 “Orientatio ad Sidera III” of the Spanish MINECO.
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González-García, A.C., Belmonte, J.A. (2015). Interactions Between Islamic and Christian Traditions in the Iberian Peninsula. In: Ruggles, C. (eds) Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_172
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