Gharb al-Andalus (Arabic: غرب الأندلس, trans. gharb al-ʼandalus; "west of al-Andalus"), or just al-Gharb (Arabic: الغرب, trans. al-gharb; "the west"),...
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al-Àndalus; Galician: al-Andalus; Occitan: Al Andalús; Portuguese: al-Ândalus; Spanish: al-Ándalus. Also known in English, perhaps in a slightly dated or quaint...
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Għarb, Gozo, Malta Gharbia Governorate, Egypt Gharb Al-Andalus or Al-Gharb, former name of a region of modern-day Portugal and Spain 711–1249 Gharb-Chrarda-Béni...
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Umayyad state of Córdoba (category Gharb Al-Andalus)
Muslims as al-Andalus), the Balearic Islands, and parts of North Africa, with its capital in Córdoba. From 756 it was ruled as an emirate until Abd al-Rahman...
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Portugal in the Reconquista (category Gharb Al-Andalus)
attack against the major city of Silves, the most important one in the Gharb al-Andalus. On July 20, 1189, the Portuguese host set up camp close to Silves...
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whole of the Gharb al-Andalus. Together with his ally Sāʿḍūn al-Ṣurunbāqī, the other important Muwallad rebel leader in Gharb al-Andalus, Ibn Marwân expelled...
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(Portuguese: Reino do Algarve, from the Arabic Gharb al-Andalus غَرْب الأنْدَلُس, "Western al-'Andalus"), after 1471, Kingdom of the Algarves (Portuguese:...
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Taifa of Lisbon (category Gharb Al-Andalus)
الأشبونة, romanized: Ṭāʾifa al-Ušbūna) was a medieval Islamic Arab Taifa kingdom of the Gharb al-Andalus or Western al-Andalus. It was located in Lower March...
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Portuguese conquest of the Algarve (category Gharb Al-Andalus)
Niebla in 1234 or 1236, he took on the title of Emir of the West (Amir al-Gharb) and declared himself a vassal of Ferdinand III of Castile, in an effort...
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demarcations or regions (nabiya) were: al-Gharb, which covered the present-day province of Huelva and southern Portugal; al-Mawsat or central lands, which extended...
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hadjib Al Mansur to rule as wali of the western province of al-Andalus (Al-Gharb). He proclaimed himself independent amid the fitna of al-Andalus (1009–1031)...
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Reconquista (redirect from Fall of al-Andalus)
Reconquista was also brought to an end with the ultimate conquering of Gharb al-Andalus when in March 1249 the city of Faro was conquered by Afonso III of...
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the Iberian Peninsula, the region was called Gharb Al-Andalus: Gharb means "the west", while al-Andalus is the Arabic name for the Iberian Peninsula....
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co-existed for over seven centuries in the Iberian Peninsula during the era of Al-Andalus states. The degree to which the Christians and the Jews were tolerated...
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Abūʾl-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Qasī (died 1151) was a Sufi, a rebel leader against the Almoravid dynasty in Al-Garb Al-Andalus and governor of Silves...
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the period of Muslim conquest, western Iberia was called Gharb Al-Andalus (the west of Al-Andalus), over the course of Portuguese Reconquista. The Christian...
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Visigothic Kingdom Spania Medieval Umayyad conquest of Hispania Al-Andalus Gharb Al-Andalus Almoravid dynasty County of Portugal Reconquista Portuguese House...
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important Marrano (Iberian crypto-Jew living as a Christian) figure in Gharb al-Andalus, modern-day Algarve in Portugal. Bakr Ben Yahia was the son of Yahia...
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the Elbe River, garrisoning them against future Slav incursions. In Gharb al-Andalus (modern Portugal), Hazim ibn Wahb leads a rebellion against the Emirate...
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Taifa of Niebla (category Gharb Al-Andalus)
Kennedy, Hugh (2014). Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of al-Andalus. Routledge. ISBN 9781317870401. "Abbadid". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol...
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Frankish vassal. A rebellion in Gharb al-Andalus (modern Portugal) is crushed by the Emirate of Córdoba. March 24 – Caliph Harun al-Rashid dies at Tus, on an...
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and other events. Bakr Ben Yahia, an important Marrano figure in Gharb al-Andalus Madragana (born c. 1230), mistress to king Afonso III of Portugal Brites...
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Morisco (section Conquest of al-Andalus)
twelfth century, the Muslim population in the Iberian Peninsula – called "Al-Andalus" by the Muslims – was estimated to number as high as 5.5 million, among...
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is in reference to when the region was a part of the wider Muslim Gharb Al-Andalus until the 13th century. The property and hunting grounds were acquired...
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Yahia Ben Bakr (category 9th-century Jews from al-Andalus)
domination) figure in the al-Gharb al-Andalus. He was a member of a family of muladís who revolted in the year 879 in Xantamarya, Al-Gharb (now the city of Faro...
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al-ʿArab "language of the Arabs" came to denote the uncontaminated language of the Bedouins. Cf. the modern toponyms Algarve (from Gharb al-Andalus)...
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Visigothic Kingdom Spania Medieval Umayyad conquest of Hispania Al-Andalus Gharb Al-Andalus Almoravid dynasty County of Portugal Reconquista Portuguese House...
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Visigothic Kingdom Spania Medieval Umayyad conquest of Hispania Al-Andalus Gharb Al-Andalus Almoravid dynasty County of Portugal Reconquista Portuguese House...
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Kingdom of Asturias (category History of al-Andalus)
largely made possible by the collapse of Umayyad control over many parts of Al-Andalus at this time. Between in the year 773 the western frontier of the kingdom...
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hidden") grew rapidly, becoming one of the important towns of the then Gharb al-Andalus (the west), today's Algarve. In 1242 Dom Paio Peres Correia took Tavira...
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