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Abdal-azis
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Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama
by Rev. E. Cobham Brewer
(1810–1897)
Abdal-azis, the Moorish governor of Spain after the overthrow of king Roderick. When the Moor assumed regal state and affected Gothic sovereignty, his subjects were so offended that they revolted and murdered him. He married Egilona, formerly the wife of Roderick.— Southey, Roderick, etc ., xxii. (1814).
