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Bo⋅ab⋅dil

  [boh-uhb-dil; Sp. baw-ahb-theel]
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–noun
(abu-Abdallah; “El Chico”), died 1533?, last Moorish king of Granada 1482–83, 1486–92.
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Bo·ab·dil   (bō'əb-dēl', -äb-thēl')   
Last Moorish king of Granada (1482-1483 and 1486-1492).
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Boabdil

last Nasrid sultan of Granada, Spain. His reign (1482-92) was marked by incessant civil strife and the fall of Granada to Ferdinand and Isabella, the Roman Catholic rulers of Aragon and Castile.

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