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Averuis: A Middle Eastern Man
Averuis was born in 1126 in Cordoba, a city in what we today call Spain. By the time he was born Spain had been ruled by an Islamic caliphate for hundreds of years. Today it's easy to imagine him as a Middle Eastern man but really he was just an ordinary European. At this time Europe was not entirely a Christian continent.
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