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Raqqada

876 · 9th century

Raqqada was a palace city near Kairouan in Tunisia, founded in 876 by the Aghlabid emir Ibrahim II as his residence. In 909 the Kutama army of the Fatimid movement took it, and in January 910 Abdallah al-Mahdi was proclaimed caliph there. It remained a Fatimid seat until the founding of Mahdia. Its site now houses a museum of Islamic art.

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