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BOABDIL (a corruption of the name See also:Abu Abdullah)  , the last Moorish See also:king of See also:Granada, called el chico, the little, and also el zogoybi, the unfortunate . A son of Muley See also:Abu'l See also:Hassan, king of Granada, he was proclaimed king in 1482 in See also:place of his See also:father, who was driven from the See also:land . See also:Boabdil soon after sought to gain See also:prestige by invading See also:Castile . He was taken prisoner at See also:Lucena in 1483, and only obtained his freedom by consenting to hold Granada as a tributary See also:kingdom under See also:Ferdinand and See also:Isabella, king and See also:queen of Castile and See also:Aragon . The next few years were consumed in struggles with his father and his See also:uncle Abdullah ez Zagal . In 1491 Boabdil was summoned by Ferdinand and Isabella to surrender the See also:city of Granada, and on his refusal it was besieged by the Castilians . Eventually, in See also:January 1492, Granada was surrendered, and the king spent some See also:time on the lands which he was allowed to hold in See also:Andalusia . Subsequently he crossed to See also:Africa, and is said to have been killed in See also:battle fighting for his kinsman, the ruler of See also:Fez . The spot from which Boabdil looked for the last time on Granada is still shown, and is known as " the last sigh of the See also:Moor " (el ultimo suspiro del See also:Moro) . See J . A . See also:Conde, Domindeion de los Arabes en Espana (See also:Paris, 1840), translated into See also:English by Mrs J .

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Foster (See also:London, 1854–1855) ; See also:Washington See also:Irving, The See also:Alhambra (New See also:York, ed . 188o) .

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