Al-Andalus
Today: Madrid, Spain
Maŷrīṭ began as a fortress founded by the emir Muḥammad I around 865 to guard the passes of the Sierra against León, with a small walled town beside it. It passed to Castile with Toledo in 1085; a stretch of its wall survives by the cathedral.
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