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Yusuf I was the seventh Nasrid ruler of the Emirate of Granada on the Iberian peninsula, between 1333 and 1354. He allied with the North African Marinids against Alfonso XI of Castile. After a naval victory in April 1340, the Marinid-Granadan alliance was decisively defeated in the Battle of Río Salado (pictured). In 1342–1344, Alfonso XI besieged and captured the port of Algeciras. He negotiated a ten-year peace treaty, but broke the treaty and invaded in 1349, besieging Gibraltar. The siege ended when Alfonso died of the Black Death in March 1350. Yusuf signed a treaty with Alfonso's son and successor Peter I. Yusuf was assassinated by a madman while praying in the Great Mosque of Granada. During his reign, the emirate flourished in the fields of literature, medicine, and the law. Yusuf was responsible for many new buildings, and major cultural figures served in his court. Modern historians consider his reign and that of his son Muhammad V as the golden era of the Emirate. (Full article...)
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Hi HaEr48 and congratulations. A draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits from you or from anyone else interested are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:42, 27 September 2020 (UTC)