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Madrid
Arab Emir Mohamed I (852-886) ordered a fortress to be built on the left bank of the Manzanares River, at the centre of the Iberian Peninsula. He named the settlement 'Magerit' and in it lay the seeds of Madrid. Traces of the flourishing Moorish town remain in the Muralla Arabe (Arabic Quarter), where a section of the town wall is still standing, and in the mudéjar architectural style of Madrid's oldest church, San Nicolás de las Servitas.
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