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Velez-Malaga

بلش مالقة

al-Andalus

Velez-Malaga — first of the east-Malaga cities to fall in the final war; it went over to the captive sultan's peace-party, then surrendered on Friday 10 Jumada I 892 when the relief army broke before contact on the rumour Granada had risen 1.

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The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
al-Andalus & Europe
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Velez-Malaga, or Balash Malaqa, is one of the cities east of Malaga. It joined the call of the captive sultan Abu Abd Allah, and peace was proclaimed in it. 2

The last siege

Al-Maqqari relates that the lord of Castile besieged it by land and sea in the second Rabi' of the year 892 AH. The relief army was defeated before engagement, on news of the revolt in Granada. Its people came out under safe conduct on Friday, the tenth of Jumada I, and the lands east of Malaga and the fortress of Qamarish obeyed. 3

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al-Andalus

People and things also explored

The Entry of Abd al-Rahman al-Dakhil into al-Andalus· Conquest of al-Andalus· the first raid on al-Andalus (27 AH)· death of Ibn Mardanīsh — Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin takes his lands· Alhama· Almeria· al-Munkab· Baza

Sources

  1. Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari , p. 523-524
  2. Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari , p.520
  3. Nafh al-Tib min Ghusn al-Andalus al-Ratib — al-Maqqari , p.523
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The Entry of Abd al-Rahman al-Dakhil into al-Andalus

In year 138 Abd al-Rahman ibn Muawiya ibn Hisham the Umayyad entered al-Andalus and seized it; his days extended and al-Andalus remained in his descendants' hands past the year 400. A man of learning and justice whose mother was Berber, they said: 'The world is ruled by two sons of Berber women — al-Mansur and Abd al-Rahman ibn Muawiya.' By year 148 nothing lay outside al-Mansur's sway but al-Andalus, held by Abd al-Rahman, who did not take the title Commander of the Faithful but only amir — as did his sons.