Al-Andalus
Today: Lisboa, Portugal
Al-Ušbūna was a busy Atlantic port and fishing town with a hilltop fortress; the geographers mention amber and gold gathered from the sands of the Tagus. It fell in 1147 to Afonso Henriques with the help of a crusader fleet bound for the Holy Land.
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