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...that Georgia’s capital Tbilisi (pictured) functioned as the center of an Islamic emirate under the Arab rule from 736 to 1122?
...that the Islamic Spaniard Judar Pasha led 4,000 Moroccans to victory against more than 40,000 Songhai troops at the Battle of Tondibi, putting an end to West Africa's Songhai Empire?
...that in the 1850s, El Hadj Umar Tall founded a short-lived Islamic empire covering modern day Guinea, Senegal, and Mali?

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