Banu Qasi
Banu Qasi بنو قسي | |||||||||||
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| 714–929 | |||||||||||
The Banu Qasi domain and its rival, the Kingdom of Pamplona, in the 10th century, after they were deprived of most of the Upper March | |||||||||||
| Capital | Tudela (714–802; 886–898) Zaragoza (802–886; 898–927) | ||||||||||
| Common languages | Andalusian Arabic, Latin, Ibero-Romance | ||||||||||
| Religion | Islam, Roman Catholicism (Mozarabic Rite) | ||||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||
• 713/714–715 | Cassius | ||||||||||
• 789–862 | Musa ibn Musa | ||||||||||
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• Conversion of Count Cassius to Islam | 714 | ||||||||||
| 929 | |||||||||||
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| Today part of | Spain | ||||||||||
The Banu Qasi, Banu Kasi, Beni Casi (Arabic: بني قسي or بنو قسي, meaning "sons" or "heirs of Cassius"), Banu Musa, or al-Qasawi were a Muladí (local convert) dynasty that in the 9th century ruled the Upper March, a frontier territory of the Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba, located on the upper Ebro Valley. At their height in the 850s, family head Musa ibn Musa al-Qasawi was so powerful and autonomous that he would be called 'The Third Monarch of Hispania'. In the first half of the 10th century, an intra-family succession squabble, rebellions and rivalries with competing families, in the face of vigorous monarchs to the north and south, led to the sequential loss of all of their land.