Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Uthman
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Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Uthman, was a sultan of the Marinid dynasty who reigned in parts of what is now Morocco between 1331 and 1348. In 1333 he captured Gibraltar from the Castilians, although a later
Dirham minted under the reign of the Marinid ruler Abu al-Hasan ibn Uthman.
Strait of Gibraltar, with Ceuta in the southeast opposite Algeciras Bay and Gibraltar.
Dinar minted during his reign
Ruins of his mausoleum in the Marinid necropolis of the Chellah archeological site.
Yusuf I of Granada
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Abu al-Hajjaj Yusuf ibn Ismail, known by the regnal name al-Muayyad billah, was the seventh Nasrid ruler of the Emirate of Granada on the Iberian Peninsula. The third son of Ismail I, he was Sultan be
Dinar minted in Yusuf I's name
Yusuf was born in 1318 in the Alhambra, pictured in 2018
The Emirate of Granada and the surrounding kingdoms in 1360
The Battle of Río Salado, where Yusuf and his ally Abu al-Hasan were defeated by the Castilian and Portuguese forces, in a 17th-century painting