Cabrera, Balearic Islands

Coordinates: 39°08′30″N 2°56′45″E / 39.14167°N 2.94583°E / 39.14167; 2.94583
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Cabrera (Spanish pronunciation:

Latin: Capraria) is an island in the Balearic Islands, Spain, located in the Mediterranean Sea off the southern coast of Mallorca. It is a National Park.[1] The highest point is Na Picamosques (172 m). Uninhabited, it is administratively part of the city of Palma in Mallorca
.

Cabrera is the largest island of the small archipelago that includes (from south to north) the islands of Estells de Fora, L'Imperial, Illa de ses Bledes, Na Redona, Conillera, L'Esponja, Na Plana, Illot Pla, Na Pobra, and Na Foradada.

History

In December 1530, Hayreddin Barbarossa, an Ottoman admiral of the fleet, captured the Castle of Cabrera, and started to use the island as a logistic base for his operations in the area. Barbarossa's naval victories secured Ottoman dominance over the Mediterranean during the mid-16th century, from 1530 until the Battle of Lepanto in 1571.

Cabrera was used to house French prisoners of war following the 1808 Battle of Bailén. Of the 9,000 sent to Cabrera during the war, only 3,600 remained to be repatriated at its end in 1814, though 876 officers and sergeants were taken off in July 1810 and sailed to England.[2] The island was to be supplied every two days with food and water but these ships often did not set sail. As well as dying of starvation, thirst and disease many were driven insane and some became cannibalistic. Inscriptions by the prisoners have been discovered in a cave at Cap Ventos, to the northwest of the island, which is also still littered with buttons from their rotted uniforms.[3]

Late in 1916, a malfunctioning

First World War
.

Cabrera remained a military zone until the 1980s, although from the 1920s some Mallorcan civilians rented out their Cabrera land for agriculture.

In 1936, during the

Dragonera Island
just southwest of Mallorca and simulate a false landing. But the anarchist CNT command refused this tactic and later went to Mallorca. A bloody battle destroyed them in Porto Cristo. The rest of this column failed before it arrived and was killed on Sa Cabana, just outside their point of entry at Manacor.

Cabrera, which had been a former

Cabrera National Park is now administratively grouped with the municipality of Palma de Mallorca
.

See also

  • Cabrera National Park

References

  1. ^ Parque Nacional del Archipiélago de Cabrera - Ministerio de Medio Ambiente de España
  2. ISBN 1568582129
    .
  3. ^ "Cavern reveals the inhuman fate of Napoleon's defeated troops". The Times.

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