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| | Kingdom of Nekor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | The Kingdom of Nekor was an emirate in the Rif with its capital initially at Temsaman but later at Nekor, founded by an immigrant of southern Arabianorigins, Salih I ibnMansur al- Himyari in 710 AD, by (Abbasid) Caliphal grant. |
 | | He converted the local Berber tribes to Islam ; they soon tired of the restrictions of the religion, and threw him out in favor of aperson known as az-Zaydi from the Nafza tribe, but then changed their mind and took him back, and his dynasty, the Banu Salih,ruled the region until 1019. |
 | | In his reign,Nekor was sacked by the Normans, who took many prisoners, a few of whom were ransomedby the Umayyad ruler of Spain. |
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