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Omayyid Amirs of Spain
AD 756 - 912
After being conquered from the Visigoths, the main
portion of Iberia was part of the Islamic Empire
from 711-756, although there was still some resistance to the invaders in the form of the border
counties of Navarre and
Barcelona, and the Christian kingdom of
Asturias.
After the
Abbasid
overthrow and massacre of the Omayyads, Spain was one place where Abbasid authority was
never asserted. Instead, the Omayyad Prince AburRahman, escaping the massacre, established
himself and his line. Eventually, in response to the
Fatimid Shiite Caliphate, the
Spanish Omayyads proclaimed their own Caliphate. |
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