High Court of Justice of Andalusia Autonomy of Andalusia. In the first ordinary session of the Parliament of Andalusia, Granada was chosen as the seat of the TSJA, making that city the judicial capital of Andalusia; Seville is the political capital. Like the other regional high courts in Spain, the TSJA was constituted in 1989. This superseded the old "Audiencias Territoriales" and gave rise to a new judicial model adapted to the requirements of the Spanish Constitution of 1978 and the Statutes of Autonomy of the various autonomous communities. The new territorial model and the new model of judicial power made it necessary to replace the
Name of Andalusia to refer those territories still under the Moorish rule until then, and generally south of Castilla Nueva and Valencia, and corresponding with the former Roman province hitherto called Baetica in Latin sources. This was a Castilianization of "Al-Andalusiya", the adjectival form of the Arabic word "al-Andalus". The name "Andalusia" or "Vandalusia" is traditionally believed to be derived from "Vandal", the Germanic tribe that briefly colonized parts of Iberia, from 409 to 429. That derivation goes back to the 13th-century "De rebus Hispaniae" but has been viewed critically from the 18th century. Reinhart Dozy (1860) recognized its shortcomings but still accepted