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Title: History for ready reference, from the best historians, biographers, and specialists : their own words in a complete system of history ...
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Larned, J. N. (Josephus Nelson), 1836-1913 Reiley, Alan C
Subjects: History
Publisher: Springfield, Mass. : C. A. Nichols Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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^Mohammedan monarchy, or westerncaliphate, afforded the ambitious local governorsthroughout the Peninsula the opportunity forwhich they had long sighed — that of openly as-serting their independence of Cordova, and ofassuming the title of kings. The wall of Seville,Slohammed ben Ismail ben Abid, . . . appearsto have been the first to assume the powers ofroyalty; ... he declared war against the self-elected king of Carmona, Mohammed ben Ab-dalla, on whose cities, Carmona and Ecija. hehad cast a covetous eje. The brother of Yahia,Edris ben All, the son of Hamud, governed Mal-aga with equal independence. Algeziras hadalso its sovereigns. Elvira and Granada obeyedHabus ben Maksan: Valencia had for its kingAbdelasis Abul Hassan, Almeria had Zohair, andDenia had JIugchid: but these two petty stateswere soon absorbed in the rising sphere of Valen-cia. Huesca and Saragossa were also subject torulers, who though slow to assume the title ofkings were not the less independent, since their 3056
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J SPAIN, 1031-1086. SPAIN, 1034-1090. sway extended over most of Aragon. The sov-ereign of Badajos, Abdalla Muslema ben Alaf-tas, was the acknowledged head of all the con-federated governors of Algarve and Lusitania;and Toledo was subject to the powerful Ismailben Dyluun, who. like the king of Seville,secretly aspired to the government of all Moham-medan Spain.—S. A. Dunham, Hi»t. of Spainand Portugal, bk. 3, sect. 1, ch. 1 (». 2).—Thesepetty kings were sometimes fighting againsteach other, and sometimes joining hands to op-pose the down-coming of Christians, until theywere startled by a new incursion from Africa. . . which, in consolidating Islam, threateneddestruction to the existing kingdoms by the ab-sorption of every one of them in this Africanvortex. I refer to the coming of the Almo-ravides.—H. Coppee, Conquest of Spain by theArab-Moors, bk. 8, cJi. 2 U: 2). A. D. 1034-1090.—The Exploits of the Cid.— Rodrigo Diez de Bivar, who came of an oldCastilian stock, was born

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