ALMF wrote:Application
Name of territory:Tiafa of Malaga
Name of leader: Abd al-Salām Ghaytasha
Heraldry: Dragon and tiger combatant collar-changing (red above gold below background) en-chevron with challenger border (top of dragon and tiger as well as the outside are gold bottom is red.
Which religion do your people follow (Christianity/Islam/Paganism): Islamic leadership but open (more than average for the Caliphate of Cordoba)
Which role do you wish to be?:Nawab
Where would you like to be placed:Granada both sides of Gibraltar and other continuous coastal (surrounding but biased to Atlantic and Iberian)
Can you provide a link to two other RPs you've been in?:http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=201732&start=125 (only one sorry)
Bio of your leader (paragraph): The family founded by a Visigoth ship-captain that protected a captured daughter of Tariq ibn Ziyad and converted to marry her. The family's title to Baig was gained by deportment in the battles against the Visigoth king Roderic and Charles the hammer of the Franks. The family became premier traders between the Cristian kingdoms of Iberia/Atlantic-France. Ib Al Salam was a trainee officer and the son of a lesser sun who controlled a large part of the merchant fleet when the family holdings were among the loses to king Ferdinand I of León. At first, it seemed a catastrophe for the family; then, the story of there bravery in battle and pious prayers under torcher and execution got back to the Caliphate. His father was named Nawab and he was married to a daughter of the Umayyads Caliph. He spent 10 years as a merchant and privateer before his wife and father-in-law bout him to heal. Over the next 10 years he helped his father integrate the seaman and other refugees of the north of Al-Andalus with the locale inhabitants. Now he has inherited.
Bio of your civilisation (2 - 3 paragraphs): We began as a mixed group of assigned (by Ziyad) Buber and Wittiza loyalists especially seaman. We supported the Mores at Battle of Guadalete, Battle of Toulouse, and Battle of Tours. Later we controlled a seaport in Badajoz. We were big supporters of the Umayyad family and the openness of the Caliphate of Cordoba.
Over the centenaries we absorbed Berbers, Visigoths (Cristian and Muslim alike), Franks and some Arabs. Also we became the top trading house between the Barbers and France and the British Isles . They even put connections to the black sea and the vikings. All of thees connections made us a target of the Kingdom of Leon and our land was taken in about 25 years ago.
The area the Umayyads put us after ransoming us from Leon was compatible but somewhat different. Majority of this aria was Barber tribesman with both major Arab and Visigoth communities. There already a lot of intermarriage but a 20+ year policy of encouraging this and the same for the refugees and seaman has lead to a society that is if not homogenous than united.
Looks like I got missed