“city of Córdoba” – Powers and Thrones (Dan Jones) https://bookshop.org/ebooks/quotes/f43a91d6-1868-4fe0-bb14-efb6d97adbcf

«Like Baghdad, and the city of Kairouan in the province of Ifriqiya (modern Tunisia), which remained part of the Abbasid caliphate until the early tenth century, Córdoba gained immense renown in the Middle Ages as a city of learning and extraordinarily rich culture. Its population bloomed to around four hundred thousand inhabitants—a scale that put Córdoba comfortably in the league of Constantinople or even ancient Rome.»

Ifriqiya… Africa??