A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Valada

by Mary Matilda Betham

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VALADA, a Moorish Spaniard, Daughter of King Almostakeph, of Corduba,

Wonderfully skilled in polite learning, and on that account much celebrated by writers. She more than once contending with scholars noted for their learning, in rhetoric, and always bore away the palm from them. She died 1091.

Bibliotheca Arabico–Hispanæ Escurialiensis.

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