Jabal Tariq

Jabal Tariq
(Arabic—Mountain of Tarik)—Moorish name for Gibraltar in honor of their chief Jabal Tariq who settled the Rock in the year 111; (Arabic— Tariq’s Mountain)— the Rock of Gibraltar

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