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wow guys, wasn't this thread totally dead?, and now i see that our friend Worldhistory had amused in last days insulting and laughing of our fellows  

Here you have the traduction to spanish of the Mozarabic chronicle (754), i can translate portions of the text (to those friends that aren't rudes ) :

Note: I have edited and translated the portions of the Chronicle; guys you are privileged because i think this is the first time that the chronicle is available in english internet. Becareful, is translated from an spanish traslation that i don't like very much (of J.E. L�pez Pereira, Zaragoza 1980) wich translated the original

Abdelaziz [713-715] it had imposed the peace for the
whole Spain for three years, submitting it to
the yoke of the census. Boasting in
Seville with his wealths and honors that he was sharing with the queen of Spain
[Egil�n], which it had joined in marriage, or with the daughters of the kings
and princes with whom he was living together and later it was retiring
imprudently, promoted a conspiracy of theirs, it was murdered by council of
Ayub, when he was devoting himself to the prayer.

This one governs Spain for one month,
and by order of the prince it replaces him in the throne of Hesperia Alaor,
whom he is informed about the death of Abdelaziz to the effect that for council
of the queen Egil�n, previous wife of king Rodrigo, whom that one had married,
it was trying to remove from his head the Arab yoke and to assume individually
the conquered Iberian kingdom [...].

During his reign Alaor [715-718] he
sends the arms of the justice for Spain, and between wars and agreements it
tries to come in almost three years to the Gaul Narbonense. This way, he organizes
little by little the Ulterior Spain forcing her to pay taxes and he is
supported in the hithermost Iberia preserving the throne the already
stated years [...].

Zama [718-720], which was filling the
governor's vacancy in Spain was doing little less than three
years, it does census of the Citerior Iberia with its own pen to load the
taxes. It avoids between his Allied Forces gained fields, as well as any other
thing that the Arabs were preserving in Spain still without distributing, fruit
of the previous booties. To the Public Treasure delivery departs from all the
goods furniture and real estate [...].

Finally, it conquers the Gaul Narbonense
and torments with frequent wars the people of the Franks; to protect well his
defenses it leaves a garrison of Saracens in already the just cited city of
Narbonne and, with the army who was accompanying him, the already named general
came in his struggle up to Toulouse and, besieging it, it tries to assault her
with siege machines of diverse type (note: literally,
"slingers"? and other machines). Then the Francs, insurances of such
a news, meet to the orders of his duke Eudo. When near of Toulouse, one and another army they are in
hard battle, they kill Zauma, general of the Saracen army, and to part of the
troop there gathered. To the rest of the army who escapes they chase him in his
flight.

It takes the control of this one
Abderram�n and it preserved it one month, until by order of the Caliph his
chief Ambiza comes [in 721] [...]. 

Also he, projecting wars against the Francs and carrying out them by means of
satraps sent for the work, fights with adverse luck. But doing brawls, with
formation in wedge of his forces, it attacks some cities and castles, and this
way, duplicating the taxes to the Christians, suppresses them hardly and,
loaded with honors, governs triumphally Spain [...].

[In the year] hundredth seventh of the
Arabs [=725 d. J.C.] it happens to Ambiza, by order of the princes [=the
caliph], a Saracen called Yah�a, terrible dictator, that it burns in cruel
anger during near three years and, taken of his hard character, it chases the
Saracens and the Moors of Spain for having usurped the previously paid to
obtain the peace and returns many things to the Christians [...].

[In the year] hundredth tenth ninth of
the Arabs [=734 d. J. C.], the fifteen of Iseam, Aucupa came to relieve to him
[= Uqba]. This, while the whole Spain was afraid of his political power,
his illustrious ancestry and his fidelity to the law, imprisons his predecessor
and punishes hardly the judges that he had nominated.

In effect, at the same time that it
forces to fulfill the law, it orders to do a census of the people and promotes
with effort the exaction of taxes. Expel
who had ruined Spain and to the involved ones in diverse
corruption on to another side of the
sea. It enriches rapidly to the Exchequer for different river beds and it is
supported in a big austerity and with completely secret donations. He does not
punish anybody, not to be in accordance with the justice, and he begin an expedition against the Franks with a multitudinous
army [...].

Beginning the hundredth thirtieth [year]
[=746 d. J.C.], the Council of palace [of Al-Andalus] in plenary meeting, in an
extraordinary acclamation, it chooses for the throne of the nation Yuzif for
being a nobleman and of advanced age.

Not many days later, promoting Arab
diverse struggles in Spain against him, they were delivering
his souls to the hell without having obtained any success. It orders to do a
census to include the surviving population, and feverishly, even at the cost of
becoming a culprit of savings, orders that the archivists should erase of the
public book those Christian taxpayers that the sword had murdered along so many
pursuits. "

The other portion:

"In the age 782 [=744 d. J. C.],
died, after asking with insistence for the peace, the warrior Teodomiro, who in
diverse areas of Spain had caused considerable slaughters of Arabs and had done
with them the agreement that it owed. Already in times of the Gothic kings
Egica and Witiza it had risen with the victory on the Byzantine ones, that as
good sailors had come up to his homeland for sea.

Considering it [the Caliph of Damascus] more prudent than the others, it
extolled it favorably and confirmed the agreement that previously it had
established with Abdelaziz [in 713]. This way, he remains corroborated in such
a way that by no means the force of so firm bond might already be annulled by
the Arab successors, and after this it returns to Spain delighted.

After the death of Teodomiro, it is
considered like man of big dignity and nobility [his son] Atanagildo, since he
was the richest master of all and the most generous on having distributed his
money with them. But soon, after comes to Spain king Alhozan [the governor
Abu-l-Jattar to the-Husam, in 742-744] snatched by what madness, it threw
against him big terms of abuse and condemned it to 27.000 golden solidus. When
the army who had come with general Balch know this, in almost three days, he paid everything and immediately they reconcile it
with Alhozan of nickname Abutcatar, and rewarding him with diverse gifts
restore him in the power."

Now here, you can see the coins of VIII century in Al-Andalus:

http://www.islamyal-andalus.org/monedas/portada.htm

http://www.islamyal-andalus.org/monedas/abdalrahman1.htm

The coin of Abd al Rahman I:

Central inscription: 
Front: "There is no god but the only Allah. He haven't equal"
Behind: "Allah is only and eternal, undivisioned he have not conceive and haven't been conceived, he haven't equal"

External inscription:
"In the name of Allah. This dirhan was made in Al-Andalus. 154 of the H�gira"

"Muhammad is the messenger of God. He sent him with the guide and the true Din for show it to all religions even if the politheist deny it"

When i will had time we will discuss a lot of things Worldhistory. 

Edited by Ikki - 05-Nov-2006 at 16:03