Seville, Also Ishbiliya, Hispalis, Sevilla

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CityAlso Ishbiliya, Hispalis, Sevilla

Sevilleإشبيلية

A river port of al-Andalus whose Almohad minaret survives as the Giralda.

Musa ibn Nusayr took Seville in 712. It flourished as a taifa kingdom under the poet-king al-Mu'tamid and then as the Almohad capital in Spain, when its great mosque was built. Castile took it in 1248; the minaret survives as the cathedral's Giralda.

Who lived here?

Al-Mutamid ibn Abbad

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