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People: Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
Location: Novaesium > Neuss Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany

Virtually all of southern Iberia is in …

Years: 715 - 715

Virtually all of southern Iberia is in Muslim hands by 715.

Abd al-Aziz makes his capital the city of Seville, where he marries Egilona, widow of King Roderic, whom he had taken prisoner and who now encourages him to convert to Christianity and, perhaps, be crowned king of Hispania.

The new Umayyad Caliph Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik orders the assassination of Abd al-Aziz.