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Abbadids

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Abbadids , Arab dynasty in Spain that ruled Seville from 1023 to 1091. Taking advantage of the disintegration of the caliphate of Córdoba , the cadi [judge-governor] of Seville seized power and became (1023) king of the newly founded state as Abbad I. His son, who succeeded him in 1042 as Abbad II, made Seville the most powerful kingdom in S Spain. He was noted for his cruelty. He was succeeded in 1069 by his son, Abbad III (al-Mutamid), a poet and a great patron of the arts, but an inept ruler. Seeking military support against Alfonso VI of León and Castile, Abbad called... Read more
Alfonso VI
...strategic Toledo (1085), he took many other cities and reached the line of the Tagus River. Alarmed by his advance, Abbad III (see Abbadids ) and his Muslim allies called to their aid the Almoravid Yusuf ibn Tashfin , who defeated Alfonso in 1086. Alfonso was defeated... Read more
Seville
...Seville was a center of learning. Falling to the Moors in 712, it was (c.1023-1091) the seat of an independent emirate under the Abbadids and a flourishing commercial and cultural center under the Almoravids and the Almohads. In 1248, Ferdinand III of Castile conquered... Read more

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; ...tobacco factory, also doubles up as the setting for Bizet's Carmen, and the Alcazar, the great palace of al- Mu'tadid of the Abbadids, was simultaneously a harem of 800 women and a shrine where today you can still trace with your fingertips the verses of the... Read more

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