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Spain under the Omayyad caliphs (...) developed the most brilliant civilization in the Europe of the period, with achievements in science, the arts, and literature far beyond anything the nascent northern or Italian states could offer, or even the decadent Byzantines.
Fletcher Pratt, The Battles that Changed History (1956), Courier Dover Publications, 2000, p.93 | ||
