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Tha'laba ibn Salama al-Amili

Syrian Arab military commander in North Africa and Iberia, and briefly ruler of al-Andalus

b. 705 CE – d. 750 CE World The Middle of The Earth

Tha'laba ibn Salama al-Amili (?–750?)

is an Arab military commander in Jordan, North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, and briefly ruler of al-Andalus from August 742 to May 743.