The Alpujarras mountains bred rebels whose politics and crime blurred

Evidence

The mountain terrain of the Alpujarras has throughout history, in Roman times, under the Caliphate, under Franco, provided a refuge for outlaws and bandits, and one would be hard put at times to say whether the more famous of these bandits were primarily political dissidents or common criminals. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 1034

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the blur between political dissidence and criminality seen in other refuge-terrain histories — Hobsbawm’s social banditry thesis.