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Later accounts of this region’s history largely rely on the compendium “The Breath of Perfume from the Fragrant Branch of” this region. The death of the saints Flora and Mary in one of this region’s cities is detailed in a hagiography of 48 martyrs written by Eulogius. A Princeton historian coined a term meaning “living-togetherness” to describe the general coexistence (-5[1])of this region’s cultural groups. (10[2]-5[1])According to legend, the mother of a ruler of this region told him to “weep like a woman for a kingdom (10[3])you could not (10[1])defend as a man.” An anonymous historian from this region wrote the Chronicle of 754, which is also called (10[1])The Mozarabic (10[1])Chronicle. (10[3])A namesake 11th-century fitna occurred in this region, (10[1])where a knight called (10[1])the “the lord” ruled a taifa. (10[2]-5[1])For (10[1])10 points, nationalist historiographers claimed that what region was liberated from foreign rule in the Reconquista ■END■ (10[4]0[3])

ANSWER: al-Andalus [accept Andalusia; accept Muslim Spain or Arab Spain or equivalents; accept Caliphate of Córdoba; accept Martyrs of Córdoba; accept Umayyad Spain; accept Taifa Spain; accept Almohad Spain; accept Emirate of Granada; accept Nasrid Spain; accept Iberia or España or Hispania in place of “Spain”; prompt on Spain, Iberia, España, or Hispania by asking “ruled by whom?”] (The historian Américo Castro coined the term convivencia. The knight was El Cid.)
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2023 ACF Nationals04/22/2023Y2291%0%14%111.30

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Cormac BeirneMcGill ARutgers A59-5
Claire JonesChicago AYale A6410
Charles HangWUSTL AOhio State A6410
Jason HongBrown AChicago B64-5
Tegan KapadiaGeorgia Tech BVirginia A8510
Eric WolfsbergStanford AFlorida A8510
Hari ParameswaranGeorgia Tech ACornell A8510
Mateo Javier AcostaFlorida BHouston A8810
Frederick Rivas-GiorgiYale BWUSTL B10710
Jonathan LauJohns Hopkins AMinnesota B10910
Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordPenn APenn State A11010
Isak JatoiSouth Carolina AClaremont A11010
Gavin MarkoffVanderbilt ARutgers B11010
Zane KierzykIndiana ANorthwestern A11810
James StevensonMichigan AImperial A12210
Dennis ReppenChicago CMinnesota A12810
Steven LiuMIT AUC Berkeley A12810
Gareth ThorlaksonToronto AColumbia A128-5
Justin WytmarIllinois AIowa State A12910
Jonathan ShaufNorth Carolina ACornell B14610
Aiden DartleyRutgers AMcGill A14610
Elijah ScheinsonColumbia AToronto A14610
Arjun NageswaranHarvard ATexas A14610
Forrest WeintraubColumbia BNYU A1460
Halle FriedmanNYU AColumbia B1460
John MarvinChicago BBrown A1460