Ambiza
' Anbassa ibn Suhaym Al-Kalbi , so known under the name francized of Ambiza (in Arab: عنبسةبنسحيمالكلب ) was an Arab general and a wali ( governor ) of Al-Andalus from 722 to 726.
Named in August 722 like successor of Abd el Rahman, it organized during three consecutive years of the Razzia S in Septimanie and Narbonnaise.
It subjected all the country occupied by the Visigoths in the north of the Spain, although it ran up, in the mountains of Cantabrie and of Asturies to the resistance organized by the duke Pierre de Cantabrie and by Pélage, resistance whose few feats of arms, the such Bataille of Covadonga, which passed unperceived from the Moslem chroniclers, were exaltés by the Christian chroniclers to make of them the starting point of the Reconquista .
In 725, Ambiza took itself the direction of the operations: it left Narbonne and occupied all the country until Nimes. Eudes, duke of Aquitaine then barred the passage to him and obliged it to engage in the Vallée of the Rhone, that they ravaga. It went up the valley of the the Saone until Autun, which it put at bag on August 22nd. It was stopped with Sens before turning over to Spain with its spoils.
In 726, Ambiza launched a new campaign against the Francs, but was beaten and killed by Eudes.
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