Abderraman iii biography of mahatma gandhi

Biography of Abderraman III: &#; Eighth sovereign Umayyad of Muslim Spain and first of them took the title of Caliph (Cordoba, &#; ). He acceded to the throne in the year , when he was only 21, designated by its grandfathers to happen to him in preference to its own children; and in he was proclaimed caliph, breaking the last symbolic link that united him with the caliphate of the Abbasids.

Biography of Abderraman III

• Born:- 7 January AD, Córdoba, Spain
• Died:- 15 October AD, Córdoba, Spain
• Successor:- Al-Hakam II
• Parents:- Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi
• Children:- Al-Hakam II, Hisham III of Córdoba, Abd ar-Rahman IV
• Place Of Burial:- Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos, Córdoba, Spain

He dedicated the greatest efforts of his long reign to subdue the territory to its effective authority, suffocating the rebellion of Andalusia (after the taking of Bobastro in ) and imposing itself by the force to the semi-independent local gentlemen.