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alusur-12418	Heidemann, Stefan; Franz, Kurt; Mewes, Katharina	Military Foundations, Ribāts, and Urbanization: The Roman, Early Islamic, and Spanish Empire in Comparison	2024	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1861	72	41	However, as time went on, the manumission of military slaves broadened the Muslim elite beyond its initial Arab ethnic origin, and military cities developed into civilian ones. These included: long-distance military logistics and strategy (the small Spanish armies were without any possibility of fast replenishment); the role of imperial competitors (the Spanish Empire had to defend its realm against other European empires); questions of regional autonomy (the Spanish provinces possessed a high degree of internal autonomy while the far-away Crown provided the legal frame); the production of regional loyalty far away from the center (a powerful loyalty bound Spanish American elites to the Crown until the nineteenth century); relations with conquered people (Church and Crown expressed the need to protect natives against undue exploitation); the relation to nomads at the fringes (the Apache and Comanche were at various times allies and foes, and only the horses of the Spanish Empire enabled them to build up vast nomadic realms of their own).	cache/alusur-12418.pdf	txt/alusur-12418.txt