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! Name
| *Caudia*, from Latin *cauda* "tail" — a metaphor for “tail-end” of Latinity          
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! Location
| Southeast of the Balearics, equidistant from Ibiza, Algiers, and Cagliari
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! Size 
| Roughly 120 km long, mountainous interior, coastal plains 
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! Geological Origin
|  Volcanic + limestone; freshwater aquifers, arable valleys
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! Climate
| Mediterranean; olive, fig, almond, and cereal agriculture
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!  Historical Timeline
| Phoenician colony, Muslim conquest, Cordoban/Andalusian territory, later than Reconquista, 
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Koǧa was part of the Caliphate of Córdoba from early on and developed as an exceptionally tolerant multicultural haven, offering the greatest protection and coexistence for Jews and Christians anywhere in the empire.  Extended exposure to Classical Arabic, not merely rural dialects. Jewish linguistic influence (e.g., Hebrew calques, Semitic syntax transfers, or Judeo-Romance variants). Christian Latin continuity via protected ecclesiastical communities and monastic scribes. An intellectual center for translation, scientific synthesis, and lexical borrowing in philosophy, agriculture, medicine, and jurisprudence.