Valenciaולנסיה

Spain

Valencia (Arabic Balansiya), a port-city on the Mediterranean coast of eastern Spain, was the capital of a taifa kingdom in al-Andalus before its conquest by the Christians (briefly by El Cid, definitively by Aragon in 1238). The Qur'an-reciter and poet al-Shatibi (al-Qasim ibn Firruh, d. 1194), author of the Shatibiyya poem on the seven readings, was born nearby and connected to the city.

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