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the Great Mosque is her best-known landmark
the Alhambra is in Granada, not Cordoba
the Dome of the Rock is in Jerusalem
the House of Wisdom is in Baghdad
they set up an emirate then a caliphate there
the Abbasids ruled Baghdad, not Cordoba
the Ottomans came centuries later in the east
the Franks did not rule al-Andalus
the sources date the Christian capture to 1236
that is Jerusalem''s seizure, not Cordoba''s fall
that is the fitna year, not the fall
she fell to the Christians in 1236
the sources record her building near Cordoba
al-Zahra is in al-Andalus, not Egypt
al-Zahra is a caliphate city, not a castle
al-Zahra is inland near Cordoba
the caliphate ended in it into taifa kings
it was internal strife, not invasion
the fitna was a struggle for rule, not a slave revolt
the fitna was political, not epidemic
the sources give a number near four hundred thousand
a hundred is a house library, not a caliphate''s
ten million exceeds what the sources record
al-Hakam''s library is among history''s most famous
she gathered learning, architecture and trade at a peak
she was never Rome''s capital
Cordoba is inland on a river, not ocean
she fell in 1236
the caliphate broke into taifas then Moroccan states
the Abbasids ruled Baghdad, not al-Andalus
taifas and Moroccan states lasted centuries before the fall
the Ottomans never reached al-Andalus
the sources place her on the Guadalquivir
the Nile is in Egypt, not al-Andalus
the Tigris is in Iraq, not al-Andalus
the Danube is in eastern Europe, not Spain
her memory stays a peak of meeting in the sources
her mosque, landmarks and memory remain
Cordoba is a living city, not a capital
the city lives with its Islamic landmarks
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