Al-Andalus
Today: Medinaceli, Spain
Madīnat Sālim guarded the pass between the Ebro and the Tagus and was the base for al-Manṣūr's campaigns against the Christian north; he died here in 1002 on his way back from a raid. Castile took it in 1104.
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