Al-Andalus

Qalʿat Ayyūb قلعة أيوب

Today: Calatayud, Spain

Years
716–1120

Founded around 716 by Ayyūb ibn Ḥabīb, whose name it keeps, Qalʿat Ayyūb was the second town of the Zaragoza taifa, with an extensive castle system on the hills above the Jalón; Alfonso I took it in 1120.

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