Granada is a city and the capital of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. The city is placed at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence of three rivers, Beiro, Darro and Genil, at an elevation of 738 meters above sea level. The city of Granada's origins were as an Ibero-Celtic settlement, which made contact in turn with the Phoenicians, the Carthagenians, and the Ancient Greeks. It was reconquered and ruled by the Eastern Roman Empire for a century. __