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Al Mansur Mahommed

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Al-Mansur, Mahommed. a great Moorish warrior in Spain at the end of the 10th century. He took Leon and Barcelona, drove the Christians out of Portugal, entered Galicia, and seized the shrine of St. James of Compostella, but was himself defeated in turn, and died 997.

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