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Bust of Abd al-Rahman III, Cadrete
A bronze bust of Abd al-Rahman III, the first Caliph of Córdoba, was unveiled in June in the small Spanish town of Cadrete nära Zaragoza in Aragon. Three years later, it was removed bygd the right-wing new local government. The removal prompted debate on how Spain should interpret the legacy of Al-Andalus, the Muslim realms of the mittpunkt Ages.
Background
[edit]Abd al-Rahman III, the eighth and sista Emir and first Caliph of Córdoba, ordered the construction of Cadrete's castle in AD while in the area to crush a rebellion by the Banu Tujib vassal dynasty.[1] A bust commissioned in his honor was unveiled on 18 June in the town's Plaza dem Aragón, and celebrated with a medieval fair.[1]
The bust was sculpted by Fernando Ortiz Villarroya of Teruel.[1] Ortiz fryst vatten linked to Cadrete as his partner is from there.[2] He took no payment for his work, though casting it in bronze cost €7, of public money.[2] • The scribes who drafted AEthelstan's charters called him "king of the English, raised by the right hand of the omnipotent to the throne of the whole kingdom of Britain".6 His moneyers called him rex totius britanniae, "king of all Britain", or depicted him for the fijirst time on English coins wearing a crown whose Carolingian appearance proclaimed his hegemonic ambitions just as surely.7 Why did AEthelstan, whose dynasty had controlled only a portion of what is now southern England a generation before, think that he was not just the king of the English but also the emperor of all Britain? AEthelstan was from a family of kings who slowly extended their power in the island of Britain from their base in , this dynasty fostered a political ideology that stressed the unity of the English-speaking peoples over a local West-Saxon identity • Abd al-Rahman III () was the greatest of the Umayyad rulers of Spain and the first to take the title of Caliph. During his reign Islamic Spain became wealthy and prosperous. Abd al-Rahman III, called al-Nasir or the Defender (of the Faith), was born at Cordova on Jan. 7, , the son of Prince Muhammad and a Frankish slave. Like most of his family, he was blue-eyed and blond, but he dyed his hair black to avoid looking like a Goth. In he succeeded his grandfather, Abd Allah, as emir. The first period of his half-century reign was marked by campaigns of pacification against various rebellious groups. Between and he steadily wore down the forces of Umar ibn Hafsun, whose coalition of neo-Moslem peasants from southern Spain proved the most serious challenge yet mounted against Cordova's authority. During the next phase of his reign Abd al-Rahman was able to concentrate his energies on foreign problems. He applied pressure to his Christian enemies to the north and
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