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Battle of Musara
The Battle of Musara was fought in May 756 on the banks of the Guadalquivir near Córdoba. Abd al-Rahman, an Umayyad prince who had escaped the Abbasid massacre of his family, defeated the governor of al-Andalus, Yusuf al-Fihri, and his ally al-Sumayl, then entered Córdoba and founded the independent Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba.
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