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Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion. Rockets launched by the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroy a Russian bridge over the Seym river in the Kursk Oblast, killing multiple volunteers who were evacuating Russian civilians. Russia's foreign ministry asserts that the missiles were launched by ...
Al-Andalus[ a] ( Arabic: الأَنْدَلُس) was the Muslim -ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula. The term is used by modern historians for the former Islamic states in modern-day Gibraltar, Portugal, Spain, and Southern France. The name describes the different Muslim [ 1][ 2] states that controlled these territories at various times ...
The oldest known illuminated Quran from the western Islamic world (i.e. the Maghreb and Al-Andalus) dates from 1090, towards the end of the first Taifas period and the beginning of the Almoravid domination in Al-Andalus. [196]: 304 [197] It was produced either in the Maghreb or Al-Andalus and is now kept at the Uppsala University Library.
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The study of neurology and neurosurgery dates back to prehistoric times, but the academic disciplines did not begin until the 16th century. The formal organization of the medical specialties of neurology and neurosurgery are relatively recent, taking place in the place in Europe and the United States only in the 20th century with the establishment of professional societies distinct from ...
Andalusia ( UK: / ˌændəˈluːsiə, - ziə /, US: /- ʒ ( i) ə, - ʃ ( i) ə /; [ 5 ][ 6 ][ 7 ] Spanish: Andalucía [andaluˈθi.a] ⓘ) is the southernmost autonomous community in Peninsular Spain. Andalusia is located in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, in southwestern Europe. It is the most populous and the second-largest autonomous ...
Ṣāʿid al-Andalusī was born in Almería in al-Andalus during the Dhulnunid dynasty [1] and died in Toledo. His Arab origins came from the tribe of Taghlib and his family had fled Cordova to take refuge in Almería during the civil war. [3] [4] His grandfather had been qadi (judge) of Sidonia and his father was qadi of Toledo until he died ...
The Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula ( Arabic: فَتْحُ الأَنْدَلُس, romanized : fataḥ al-andalus ), also known as the Arab conquest of Spain, [ 1] by the Umayyad Caliphate occurred between approximately 711 and the 720s. The conquest resulted in the destruction of the Christian Visigothic Kingdom of Spain and led to ...