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ABENCERRAGES

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 42 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ABENCERRAGES , a See also:

family or See also:faction that is said to have held a prominent position in the Moorish See also:kingdom of See also:Granada in the 15th See also:century. The name appears to have been derived from the Yussuf See also:ben-Serragh, the See also:head of the tribe in the See also:time of Mahommed VII., who did that See also:sovereign See also:good service in his struggles to retain the See also:crown of which he was three times deprived. Nothing is known of the family with certainty; but the name is See also:familiar from the interesting See also:romance of Gines See also:Perez de See also:Hita, Guerras civiles de Granada, which celebrates the feuds of the Abencerrages and the See also:rival family of the Zegris, and the cruel treatment tAwhich the former were subjected. J. P. de Floridn's Gonsalve de Cordoue and See also:Chateaubriand's Le dernier See also:des Abencerrages are imitations of Perez de Hita's See also:work. The See also:hall of the Abencerrages in the See also:Alhambra takes its name from being the reputed See also:scene of the See also:massacre of the family.

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