"Kalif" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Lisbon up to the straits and everywhere, as in France, overcame the unprepared natives, plundering, burning, and destroying. They captured even Seville itself, September 30, 844, but were met by the Cordovese Kalif, beaten, and expelled. They were called by the Moors Majus, Madjous, Magioges (Conde, i. 282), and by the early Spanish annalists Almajuzes. The root has been erroneously derived from [Greek text], Magus, ...
— A Supplementary Chapter to the Bible in Spain • George Borrow
... Baldacca's Kalif alone Rose in rebellion against thy throne: His treasures are at thy palace-door, With the swords and the shawls and the jewels he wore; His body is dust o'er ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 • Various |
