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Now at this time a Moor called Ali Abenaxa, the Adelantado of the Almoravides, that is to say, of the Moors from beyond sea, came with a great power of the Moors of Andalusia to besiege the Castle of Aledo.
Chronicle of the Cid Various 1808
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Those African princes were at this time sufficiently occupied at home in opposing some new sectaries, the principal of whom, under pretext of reinitiating the people in a knowledge of the pure doctrines of Mohammed, opened for themselves a path to the throne, and, after many struggles, ended by effectually driving the family of the Almoravides from its possession.
History of the Moors of Spain M. Florian
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Morocco, were still employed in exterminating the dismembered fragments of the party of the Almoravides, and could not, in spite of their eager desire to do so, establish any claim to their assumed rights in Spain.
History of the Moors of Spain M. Florian
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As Africa, distracted by the long war of the Almoravides and the
History of the Moors of Spain M. Florian
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The Moors were attacked on all sides, and their cities were everywhere compelled to surrender, now that they were no longer materially aided by the Almoravides.
History of the Moors of Spain M. Florian
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Africa, after having been separated from the vast empire of the Caliphs of the East by the Fatimite caliphs, and being, during three centuries of civil war, the prey of a succession of conquerors more ferocious and sanguinary than the lions of their deserts, [3] was now subjected to the family of the _Almoravides_, a powerful tribe of Egyptian origin.
History of the Moors of Spain M. Florian
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At the close of the eleventh century, the Murābits or Almoravides, a
The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole
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Almoravides, crossed from Africa to Spain and inflicted a severe defeat upon a Christian army.
The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 1907
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Almoravides over Spain, which they were attempting to subdue.
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Caliph Jusef Ben Taxfin, chief of the Almoravides and conqueror of
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