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al-Munastīr المنستير

Today: Almonaster la Real, Spain

Years: 801–1230

al-Munastīr, "the monastery", a word of Latin origin, was an important town of the Huelva hills, where a mosque was raised inside the castle in the 9th and 10th centuries over Roman and Visigothic remains. It fell to the Christians in 1230 and was Portuguese first, then Castilian.

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Mezquita de Almonaster la Real (Mezquita de al-Munastīr): Mosque, 9th to 10th century

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