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Suqut al-Barghawati
Suqut al-Barghawati was a former slave of Barghawata origin who served the Hammudid rulers and became master of Ceuta and Tangier in the mid-11th century. He ruled Ceuta as an independent taifa lord and resisted the advancing Almoravids, who defeated and killed him around 1079. His son held Ceuta until the Almoravids took it in 1083.
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