Al-Hakam I, Umayyad Emir of Cordoba, crushes…
808 CE to 819 CE
Al-Hakam I, Umayyad Emir of Cordoba, crushes a rebellion led by clerics in a suburb called al-Ribad on the south bank of the Guadalquivir River.
He punishes the inhabitants by exiling them by ship.
They eventually reach Alexandria and will dominate the city until 827, after which they are expelled.
They will sail on to Crete, where they will establish an independent emirate that is to survive until the reconquest by the East Romans in 961.
