Teresa of Leon and her son Afonso of Portugal loved the Knights Templar but hated each other with a vengeance as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Afonso Henriques, france, Iberian Peninsula, Knightfall, Lisbon, Ponte de Lima, portugal, spain, Templar, Templar Knight, Teresa
In the year 711, only decades after the death of the prophet Mohammed, the Iberian peninsula was invaded right up to the Pyrenees and beyond. In fact, the Muslim army got as far as the city of Tours in France…
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Andalus, Caliphate, convento, convivencia, Cordoba, crusade, España, Espanha, france, Iberian Peninsula, Islam, Pyrenees, reconquista, spain, Visigoth
Abu al-Qasim was the father of modern surgery and a great example of a thinker from the era of the medieval Muslim caliphate in Spain
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Abu, abu al-qasim, Al-Andalus, christian, Cordoba, ectopic, father, father of modern surgery, fistula, Iberian Peninsula, Islam, medic, medicine, middle ages, muslim, pregnancy, Qasim, Seville, spain, surgery, Toledo, tonsils, translate
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