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A PRINCE of the Umaiyad dynasty, Abd alRahman b Mwiyah b (Caliph) Hisham (756788), was forced to flee Damascus when the Abbasids took control of the Muslim world in 750. Abd alRahman fled to Iberia (modern Spain) and founded a new Umaiyad dynasty there. Later known as the "Falcon of Spain"...
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