ANTEQUERA (anc. Anticaria), a city in southern Spain, province of Malaga. Pop. A fortress town of the Muslim period, taken by the Christians in 1410, it occupies a commanding position overlooking the structural depression followed by the river Guadalhorce (see ANDALUSIA). The Sierra de las Torcales, on the south side of this depression, is celebrated for its scenery and is quarried for marble; the Pena de los Enamorados, or "Lovers' Rock," a crag rising from the flat of the vega, owes its name to the legend adapted by Robert Southey in his Laila and Manuel. In the east suburbs of Antequera is the Cueva de Merja, one of the most important dolmens of the Pen insula. Woollen fabrics are manufactured, and the sugar industry (est. 1890) employs several thousand hands.