Andalusia Andalusia ( , ; , ) is the southernmost autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in Peninsular Spain, located in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, in southwestern Europe. It is the most populous and the second-largest autonomou ...

is a region in Spain. Andalusian may also refer to:

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Andalusian chicken The Blue Andalusian, , is a breed of domestic chicken indigenous to the autonomous community of Andalusia in south-west Spain. It is distributed through much of the countryside of Córdoba and Seville, and is concentrated particularly in the ...

, a type of chicken *

Andalusian donkey The Andalusian, , is a Spanish breed of domestic donkey. It is native to the province of Córdoba in Andalusia, and may also be known as the Asno Cordobés after the city of Córdoba or the Asno de Lucena because of its supposed origin in the t ...

, breed of donkey *

Andalusian hemipode The common buttonquail (''Turnix sylvaticus''), also called Kurrichane buttonquail and Andalusian hemipode, is a buttonquail, one of a small family of birds that resemble but are not closely related to the true quails. Taxonomy The common butto ...

, a buttonquail, one of a small family of birds *

Andalusian horse The Andalusian, also known as the Pure Spanish Horse or PRE (Spanish language literally translates to "Spanish pure breed". This name is sometimes capitalized when used in English-language publications, but is all lower-case in Spanish, which ...

, a breed of horse

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Al-Andalus Al-Andalus () was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula. The name refers to the different Muslim states that controlled these territories at various times between 711 and 1492. At its greatest geographical extent, it occupied most o ...

, a historical state on the Iberian Peninsula *

Al-Andalusi Al-Andalusi (; alternatively ''Al Andalusi'', ''Al Andalousi'', ''El-Andaloussi,'' ''El Andaloussi'', ''Landoulsi'' or ''Landolsi'') is an Arabic-language surname common in North African countries (mainly Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia) that literall ...

, an Arabic attributive title for people from Al-Andalus region *

Andalusian people The Andalusians () are the people of Andalusia, an Autonomous Community, autonomous community in southern Spain. Statute of Autonomy of Andalusia, Andalusia's statute of autonomy defines Andalusians as the Spanish citizens who reside in any of ...

, an ethnic group in Spain centered in the Andalusia region *

Andalusian Spanish The Andalusian dialects of Spanish (, , ) are spoken in Andalusia, Ceuta, Melilla, and Gibraltar. They include perhaps the most distinct of the southern variants of peninsular Spanish, differing in many respects from northern varieties in a number ...

, a dialect of Spanish (also called andaluz) *

Andalusian Arabic Andalusi Arabic or Andalusian Arabic () was a variety or varieties of Arabic spoken mainly from the 8th to the 15th century in Al-Andalus, the regions of the Iberian Peninsula under the Muslim rule. Arabic spread gradually over the centuries ...

, a dialect of the Arabic language *

Andalusian cadence The Andalusian cadence (diatonic phrygian tetrachord) is a term adopted from flamenco music for a chord progression comprising four chords descending stepwise: iv–III–II–I progression with respect to the Phrygian mode or i–VII–VI–V pr ...

, a chord progression in music theory *''

An Andalusian Dog (, ''An Andalusian Dog'') is a 1929 French silent short film directed, produced and edited by Luis Buñuel, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Salvador Dalí. Buñuel's first film, it was initially released in a limited capacity at Studio ...

'', the English title of the film ''Un chien andalou''

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