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  1. Industrial seaport (sugar refining,
  2. distilling, brewing, olive-oil pressing,
  3. shipbuilding) and holiday resort in
  4. Andalusia, Spain; capital of Malaga province
  5. on the Mediterranean; population (1986)
  6. 595,000. Founded by the Phoenicians and taken
  7. by the Moors 711, Malaga was capital of the
  8. Moorish kingdom of Malaga from the 13th
  9. century until captured 1487 by the Catholic
  10. Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella.
  11.