Pechina is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

of the Province of Almería, in the autonomous community of

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, Spain. It is on the site of the ancient town of Urci. Pechina, called ''Bajjāna'' in Arabic, was the centre of a

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i colony during the period of the Umayyad caliphate in Spain. Founded before 886, the self-governing colony was known as the ''ursh al-Yaman''.

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also shared in the prosperity of Pechina. In 922 it was incorporated into the caliphate. It oversaw a '' ribat'' (fortress) and maintained its own navy that could be put use for piracy or official Umayyad campaigns. Between 939 and 944 it took part in four expeditions against the

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, Idrisids and

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. By 955, it had been eclipsed by

Almería Almería (, , ) is a city and municipalities in Spain, municipality of Spain, located in Andalusia. It is the capital of the province of Almería, province of the same name. It lies in southeastern Iberian Peninsula, Iberia on the Mediterranean S ...

.Hassan Salih Khalilieh, ''Islamic Maritime Law: An Introduction'' (Brill, 1998), pp. 8–9.

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* Khashkhash Ibn Saeed * Juan Mañas Morales, murdered by Civil Guard officers in Almería Case

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