biography
pronunciation:
[abderrahman]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (731–88)
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| biography:
| An Umayyad emir who survived the massacre of his family by the Abbasids in 750, and conquered most of Muslim Spain. He founded the emirate of al-Andalus (756), with its capital at Córdoba. |
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