They were tasked to defend the castle of Calatrava and other crucial towns and cities in the Andalucian region from invasions and attacks from the Moors.
For many years, Coin was the setting for several series, first the British Eldorado for the BBC, and after that the Andalucian "Plaza Alta" soap operas and "Arrayan", both recorded in "Loasur" studios produced by "Linze TV", and shown by "Canal Sur".
At least one authority, Alan Caiger-Smith, excludes this pottery from the term "Hispano-Moresque", but most who use the term at all use it to include Malaga and Andalucian wares from the Islamic period as well as the Valencian pottery.
In 1970 he began his undergraduate studies at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras in the University of Seville and started the first of a two year study at the Conservatory of Music and Drama of the Andalucian capital.
In 2004 he won the Andalucian Youth Poet award with the poetry book "La piel del vigilante", based on the classic comic Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.
Solomon ibn Gabirol (circa 1021 – circa 1058), Andalucian Hebrew poet and Jewish philosopher