Istan, Malaga, Andalucia

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Istan is located in the Province of Malaga, in the Community of Andalucia, Spain. Nearby towns include - Ojen (8 km away) - Marbella (9 km away) - Benahavis (10 km away) - Monda (11 km away) - Tolox (12 km away). Nearest airports are - Malaga, (IATA code AGP) (41 km away) - Gibraltar, (IATA code GIB) (60 km away) - Moron Ab, Sevilla (IATA code OZP) (88 km away) (All distances direct, not road distance).

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Istan

Istán is a village in Málaga province, Andalucia, Southern Spain, with an estimated population in 2005 of 1,422. It lies beneath the Sierra Blanca in the valley of the Rio Verde about 15 km from Marbella and the Mediterranean coast. It is also near the large reservoir created by the Presa de la Concepción dam, built in 1972 to provide drinking water to towns all along the Costa del Sol.

History

It was originally a Moorish settlement and as with its near neighbour Ojen, survived where others didn't largely because it was away from the coast. After the Reconquest, Moors were not allowed to live near the coast so as to be unable to communicate easily with their kinsmen in nearby North Africa.

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